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Films : YOUSSEF CHAHINE’S BEST FILMS
YOUSSEF CHAHINE’S BEST FILMS |
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1950
BABA AMIN (Father Amin)
Director : Youssef Chahine
Screenwriter : Ali Al Zorkani & Hussien Helmy El Mohandes
Cast : Hussein Riad, Faten Hamama, Kamal Al-Shennawi, Marie Munib
Arabic with French subtitles I
90 minutes
Father Amin is rich but stingy. A nightmare haunts him: what will be the situation of his family after his death? |
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1958
BAB EL HADID (The Iron Gate)
Director : Youssef Chahine
Screenwriter : Abdel Hay Adib
Cast : Youssef Chahine, Hind Rostom, Farid Shawky, Hassan El Baroudy
Arabic with French subtitles I
95 minutes
A crippled newspaper dealer falls in love with a beautiful lemonade seller. Rejected by this woman, he decides to kidnaps her. |
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1968
AL NASS WAL NIL (Those People of the Nile)
Director : Youssef Chahine
Screenwriter : Hassan Fouad & Nicolai Vikroski
Cast : Vladimir Ivachov, Imad Hamdi, Zalah Sulficar, Igor Vladimirov
Arabic & Russian with French subtitles I
109 minutes
1964. Assouan in Egypt. After two years of a titanic work, the old course of the Nile will be closed. The inauguration of the dam will open a new era at the same time as to flood the ancestral grounds definitively. |
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1969
AL ARD (The Land)
Director : Youssef Chahine
Screenwriter : Hassan Fouad, d’après un roman de Abdel Rahman El Charkawi
Cast : Mahmoud Al Meligi, Ezzat Al Alayli-Nagwa Ibrahim, Hamdi Ahmed
Arabic with French subtitles I
130 minutes
In the 1930s, Egypt is controlled by a monarchy supervised by the British. Far from Cairo, the peasants of a village live painfully. One day, to support the landowners, the authorities decide to restrict the licences of irrigation. |
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1973
AL OUSFOUR (The Sparrow)
Director : Youssef Chahine
Screenwriter :Youssef Chahine
Cast : Salah Kabil, Ali El Scherif, Mahmoud El Meliguy
Arabic with French subtitles I
105 minutes
On the eve of the Six Day War, a policeman begins a friendship with a reporter who is investigating what appears to be a scandal involving the theft of weapons and machinery by high officials. |
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1978
ISKANDERIYA LIH ? (Alexandria… Why ?)
Director: Youssef Chahine
Screenwriter : Youssef Chahine & Mohsen Zayed
Cast : Mohsen Mohiedine, Farid Chawki, Naglaa Fathi
Arabic with French subtitles I
133 minutes
In 1942, as Rommel’s army nears Alexandria, a young student escapes through theatre and movies. Dreaming of Hollywood, he stages his own plays and theatrical reviews.
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