Magdy works as an engineer at the High Dam, in Aswan and is taking a leave of absence from work to travel to Cairo and meet his family again, and plans to spend more time with his wife, Laila, who works as a doctor in a hospital, but she…
8. 11. 2023Eissa Al-Dabagh is a member of a washed-out political party that was defanged by the 1952 revolution. When he meets the prostitute Riri, he tries to use her to chase the mirage of the power and control he once had.
10. 9. 2013Ústí nad Labem /Rozhovor, Fotogalerie, Video/ - Říká se mu syrský Karel Kryl. Po koncertě na festivalu Barevná planeta, který chytil za srdce, jsme se…
Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian crime-drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, [1 ] written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and Abdel Hay Adib, and starring Farid Shawqi and Hind…
This remarkably sensitive yet jarringly violent romance epitomizes director Youssef Chahine’s late-fifties hybrid style, which combined elements of Hollywood entertainment with an unmistakably Egyptian spirit.