I recommend a rare but recent Egyptian film that I watched last night.
It features a young orphan who attaches himself to a (real-life) leper who decides, on the death of his wife, to go with his donkey (called Harbi) a few hundred miles down the Nile, back to the family which sent him to the leper-colony over 30 years earlier.
On the way they lose their small amount of money, abandon the broken cart, get thrown off a train, bury Harbi, hitch-hike, get arrested, and meet a (real-life) group of outcasts who include a dwarf and a legless beggar.
I don't think any professional actor took part.
The film (with subtitles) can be found on YIFY (download magnet) and on rutracker.org (Russian subtitles only, but srt file available on opensubtitle.org.)
Incidentally, a Muslim Hadith is repeated during the film:
'One should flee a leper as one should flee a lion.'
Leprosy being considered infectious, the Hadith means that lepers should be considered (and avoided) as natural, their affliction God-given, not as if they were demonic or satanic.
Another Hadith advises that sick camels should not be brought among healthy ones.
If you like this film, then you should also love the wonderful Chadian film,
Daratt (Dry Season), also available by torrent/magnet – and you will have the bones of a high-culture African holiday or vacation.
There's a leper driving one of those cars!
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