A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch's Last Masquerade)

Alfred Roch, member of the Palestinian National League, is a politician with a bohemian panache. In 1942, at the height of WWII, he throws what will turn out to be the last masquerade in Palestine. Inspired by an archival photograph, A Sketch of Manners (Alfred Roch’s Last Masquerade) recreates an unconventional bon vivant aspect of Palestinian urban life before 1948. Posing silently for a group photo, the unmasked and melancholic pierrots accidentally personify the premonition of an uncertain future.

• Release date
• April 29, 2013
• Runtime
• 12 min
• Genres
• History
• Director
• Jumana Manna

Cast

H

Hakim Bishara Alfred Roch

A

Anders Ribu Narrator