Day of the Falcon (also known as Black Gold and Black Thirst) is a 2011 drama film, based on Hans Ruesch's 1957 book South of the Heart: A Novel of Modern Arabia. It's US$55m budget makes it one of the most expensive films backed by an Arab about an Arab subject.
Under the unforgiving desert sky, two warring leaders come face to face amidst a battlefield littered with bodies of their warriors. Prince Auda (Tahar Rahim) faces a war cursed by the discovery of oil in a peaceful no man’s land. He must take up arms and make a choice between two enemies; the father who gave him life and the man who raised him.
The stage is now set for an epic showdown for control of the Yellow Belt, for control of the two kingdoms, for control of the future.
Special Features:
- The making of ‘Day of the Falcon’
- Transforming the desert: the visual effects of Day of the Falcon
- From storyboard-to-screen