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Release year: 2021

Storyline

A fatal accident disrupts the lives of Western visitors to a lavish party in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco, and will ultimately lead to a reckoning in the desert.

Top credits

Directors

John Michael McDonagh

Writers

Cast

Aissam Taamart — Ismael
Omar Ghazaoui — Driss
David McSavage — William Joyce
Anas El Baz — Nawfal

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Did you know

• The villa where the weekend party takes place is actually a composite of three separate locations. The spectacular fireworks were real and not CGI, and the actors seen filming them were doing it for real on their own phones.

• Ismael Kanater, who plays Driss' father, was a prominent Moroccan theater actor and director now living in America whom one of his fellow cast members described as the Al Pacino of Morocco.

• Lawrence Osborne, author of the book "The Forgiven," has a brief cameo near the beginning of the film as the older man in sunglasses seated in the lobby of the hotel where Jo and David stop on the way to Azna who uses his cane to lift the skirt of one of the young girls standing nearby.