This is a 39" x 54" Italian two-sheet poster for the 1966 Henry
Barakat musical The Exile [safar barlek] written by Assi and
Mansour Rahbani and starring Fairuz as Adla. Plot summary: The film
is set in 1914 when Lebanon was under Ottoman rule and Adla was living
with her grandmother. She was awaiting the day of her engagement with
her beloved Abdo [Ihsan Sadek]. When Abdo was out shopping for a
wedding ring he was seized by Ottoman soldiers and pressed into forced
labor chopping trees in the local forest for use by the Ottoman army.
Ottoman soldiers were occupying Adla's village of Ain El Joz,
confiscating its wheat and exploiting its labor.
