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Black Gold (also known as Day of the Falcon and Or noir) is a 2011 epic historical war film, based on Hans Ruesch's 1957 novel South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia (also known as The Great Thirst and The Arab). It was directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, [4] produced by Tarak Ben Ammar and co-produced by Doha Film Institute.
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The tale is classified in the international Aarne-Thompson-Uther Index as type ATU 432, "The Prince as Bird". In Russia, particularly, the tale type is known as Finist iasnyi sokol ("Finist the Bright Falcon), [6] - also the name of type SUS 432 of the East Slavic Folktale Classification (Russian: СУС, romanized: SUS).
Malcolm Spellman is a name you’ll see over and over in 2021. The multitalented producer and writer is marking his Hollywood territory with a deluge of high profile projects due out this year ...
The Falcon Pipiristi (Russian: Сокол Пипиристи, romanized: Sokol Pipiristi) is a folktale from the Komi people, first published in 1938 in the Russian language. In it, the heroine asks her father to bring an item that belongs to a falcon named Falcon Pipiristi, which she uses to summon him to her bedroom, but her sisters place ...
The Falcon and the Snowman was eventually published in 1979 and in 1980 he received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best non-fiction crime book. In 1983, the sequel, The Flight of the Falcon: The True Story of the Escape and Manhunt for America's Most Wanted Spy , was released; it chronicled Boyce's escape from federal prison and subsequent bank ...
The book's title draws from historical symbols of the Balkans. The black lamb "is the symbol, seen in a gypsy rite in Macedonia, of false -- and thus of impious -- sacrifice" while the grey falcon "is an enigmatic figure in a Slav folksong about a military defeat in the year 1389". [5] West's original intent was to rapidly write the work.
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