
Backgammon
· 15 min · Not rated
Two elderly friends engage in a tense backgammon game, where decades of unspoken truths are confronted.
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- Directors
- Claude Bou Haroun
- Production companies
- Académie Libanaise des Beaux-Arts
- Countries
- Lebanon
- Status
- Released
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