
Road Blocks
2001-02-13 · 101 min · ★ 7.0
Ali, a Kurdish refugee, travels to Athens in search of his missing brother. He discovers that his brother paid to be smuggled into Italy but then disappeared, so Ali tries to find his brother and get his way into Italy.
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- Directors
- Stavros Ioannou
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- Filmode, Greek Film Centre
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- Greece
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- Released
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