Synopsis
"Sana’a, like all of the Third World for
Pasolini, was two things, an intact, sublimely beautiful medieval Arab city of the past, and a corrupted, degraded city being developed in the present. In 1971,
Pasolini made [this] film in the form of a plea to UNESCO to save Sana’a from the destruction of modernisation" –
Sam Rohdie,
The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini