I saw this years ago when it showed on Channel 4 in England. It is a French-Tunisian film aka Laila Ma Raison and tells the historic love story between Qays, a poet, and his sweetheart, Layla, and how he is driven to madness by her father's refusal to agree to their marriage due to caste differences. He roams the deserts and becomes a wandering dervish till people call him Majnun (Mad/Possessed). The story of Layla and Majnun is legendary throughout the Middle East and the Subcontinent and many film versions have been made, for example by Bollywood, but this is by far the best and realistic.
Highly recommended.
Highly recommended.
