{"id":40375,"date":"2015-05-13T13:18:58","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=40375"},"modified":"2015-05-13T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T10:30:25","slug":"a-homeland-march-film-documents-heroism-of-syrian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=40375","title":{"rendered":"A Homeland March, Film documents heroism of Syrian\u00a0Army"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA The first screening of &#8220;A Homeland\u00a0March&#8221; film, which documents the march of the Syrian Arab Army since the foundation of this\u00a0army following the defeat of the French occupation forces in 1946 till now, was shown at\u00a0Damascus Opera House on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>It is a pleasure to open the first long\u00a0documentary film about the Syrian Arab Army, as the General Organization of Cinema has previously\u00a0screened the huge sacrifices of this great army in more than a film, but the appearance\u00a0of the army in those films was sectional and partial, while today we are in front\u00a0of a full film, Mohamad al-Ahmad, Director General of the General Establishment of\u00a0Cinema said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-40382 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film3-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"film3\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film3-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film3.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Al-Ahmad added that the film narrates the march of\u00a0this undaunted heroic army since the heroism of martyr Yousef al-Azmah.<\/p>\n<p>The film tells the story of the sacrifices of the\u00a0army in October Liberation War and its role in confronting all attempts to hurt the\u00a0dignity of the Arab Nation. It also highlighted the steadfastness of our brave\u00a0soldiers in their battle against terrorism, which is pumping thousands of terrorist\u00a0mercenaries from all the countries of the world to\u00a0Syria every day.<\/p>\n<p>The prelude of A Homeland&#8217;s March, film included\u00a0chanting the Syrian anthem by the Army band. Then the band played the martyr&#8217;s greeting\u00a0and farewell and chanted a national song.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-40383 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film4-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"film4\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film4-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film4.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film was produced by the Cinema Organization\u00a0in cooperation with the political administration of the Army and Armed Forces.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-hour film touched upon one of the epics of\u00a0the Syrian people represented by a plentiful record of sacrifices presented by the\u00a0army, through a remarkable documentary scenario written by scenarist Mahmoud Abdel-Karim.<br \/>\nThe film reviews the establishment of the army\u00a0following the victory of the Great Arab Revolution and the entrance of King Fayssal to\u00a0Syria, thus holding the Syrian Conference in 1919 in the Syrian village of Bloudan as the\u00a0army was consisted of revolutionists who came from all the Syrian villages, towns and\u00a0cities to face the Ottoman occupation and confront the crime perpetrated by Jamal Bacha<br \/>\nknown as the Butcher and the execution of a number of Nationalists in Syria and Lebanon by\u00a0the Butcher.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film-audience.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-40386 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film-audience-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"film audience\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film-audience-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film-audience.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mixing fiction with documentary material, through\u00a0an influential vision, the film recited the confrontation of the revolutionist Yousef al-Azmeh and comrades, accompanied with about 3000 members of the Syrian Army, against the\u00a0French occupation forces in July 1920.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The film went on to depict the events happened\u00a0during the Great Syrian Revolution, the revolutionists battles against the French\u00a0occupation forces in Lattakia, al-Zawiya mountain, Horan Plain, al-Jazira, Damascus,\u00a0Aleppo, Sweida led by Saleh al-Ali in the coastal mountains and By Sultan Batcha al-Atrash\u00a0in the Arab Mountain in 1925 who issued To Arms to Arms declaration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film-anthem.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-40377 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film-anthem-300x160.jpg\" alt=\"film anthem\" width=\"300\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film-anthem-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/film-anthem.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It also talked about the heroism of this army\u00a0following independence in 1946, narrating its heroism in the war against the Zionist gangs\u00a0in the Arab occupied territories.<\/p>\n<p>Homeland March, also, sheds light on the role of\u00a0the Army in building the modern state and facing the US conspiracies and schemes, among them\u00a0the Eisenhower Project.<\/p>\n<p>The army&#8217;s support to Egypt during the tripartite\u00a0aggression in 1956 was also screened, as martyr Joul Jammal bombed the French Jeanne d&#8217;Arc\u00a0battleship near the Alexandria shores.<\/p>\n<p>In an impressive vision, the film screened the\u00a0bravery of the Syrian soldiers in the battlefield acted by an army unit in facing\u00a0terrorist hideout, coupling between the documentary and dramatic materials.<\/p>\n<p>The film crowned its touching narration by talking\u00a0about heroism of the Syrian army in the Liberation war of October led by Late President\u00a0Hafez al-Assad and the battles to liberate Quneitra and the observation post of\u00a0Mount Hermon (Jabal al-Shaykh) side by side with the Egyptian Army .<\/p>\n<p>The film also presented a remarkable historical\u00a0documentation of the role of the army in the establishment of the resistance movement in\u00a0Lebanon and occupied Palestine.<br \/>\nIt also highlighted the July war 2006 and the\u00a0capability of this army in supporting the resistance.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fimm-prelude.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-40376 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fimm-prelude-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"fimm prelude\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fimm-prelude-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/fimm-prelude-1024x681.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The film portrayed the sacrifices of all members\u00a0of the Syrian army in defending the homeland against the Takfiri terrorists&#8217; gangs and\u00a0their allied groups, financed and supported by Turkey, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the\u00a0US.<\/p>\n<p>The film is was directed by Nidal Dowaji.<br \/>\nH. Zain\/ Barry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damascus, SANA The first screening of &#8220;A Homeland\u00a0March&#8221; film, which documents the march of the Syrian Arab Army since the foundation of this\u00a0army following the defeat of the French occupation forces in 1946 till now, was shown at\u00a0Damascus Opera House on Tuesday. It is a pleasure to open the first long\u00a0documentary film about the Syrian &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40379,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,453,147],"tags":[5505],"class_list":["post-40375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-arts-culture","category-reports","category-drama-and-sinai-and-theater","tag-homeland-march"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}