From the Mountain (من الجبل)
Qumra Projects
/ TV Series / Jordan, Syria
In Arabic, English
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Synopsis
In pre-WWI Syria, Sultan Al Atrash returns home from forced military service to find that the Ottomans have executed his father and stolen land from his village. With the help of his family and close friends, Sultan defies his elders and local leadership to win back the land, catapulting him to local hero. As Sultan gains influence among the villagers and his extended family who run the “Jabal” (Mountain), he faces off against his pro-Ottoman cousins who are more interested in power than fighting for freedom, despite ruthless Ottoman rule and corruption.
Sultan becomes a father figure to his brothers, but his dream is to start his own family with Turkiya, his strong and righteous wife. They struggle to conceive a son, tragically losing several babies to illness. When the Ottomans cause a famine across the country, Sultan opens his home to refugees and political exiles, attracting the attention of both the Ottomans and Arab nationalists. Sultan joins Prince Faisal’s movement, aligning the Jabal with the Arabs against his cousin’s demands. In the season finale, Sultan’s army frees Damascus, ending 400 years of Ottoman rule. However, freedom is short-lived when the French take control of Syria…