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June 5, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized

The Coward and Love (1975)

— 115 min - Drama, Social Corruption - 16 June 1975

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Magdy, the struggling student at the Faculty of Medicine, meets Souad, the wife of his professor Dr. Fikry, and she admires him and asks her husband to let him work in his clinic. They get involved in a relationship, but events take a tragic turn. * Hind Rostom won the Best Actress Award for her role in this film. ** The Coward and Love 1975 is the second experience in directing for the artist Hassan Youssef, and his first experience in directing was with the film A Boy, a Girl and the Devil 1971. ** The Coward and Love 1975 film achieved revenues of 44,728 pounds in 17 weeks of showing at Miami Cinema in Cairo.

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May 6, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

Al-Karnak (1975)

— 140 min - Drama, Political corruption - 29 December 1975

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In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.

Director:  Ali Badrakhan

Writers:  Naguib Mahfouz, Mamdouh Al Laithy

Stars:  Soad Hosny, Nour El-Sherif, Kamal Al-Shenawy, Farid Shawqi, Shwikar, Salah Zulfikar, Emad Hamdy, Mohamed Sobhi, Tahiya Cariocca, Ali Al Sharif, Fayez Halawa, Waheid Seif, Farouq Youssef, Naima ElSoghier, Younes Shalaby, Mohammed Tawfik, Hassan Hosny, M...

April 30, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

The Swindlers (1973)

— 98 min - Drama, Comedy - 23 July 1973

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Arnaouti and Bassiouni are conmen who fall in love with Souad and Nawal who are also con-artists. They decide to marry each other. On the wedding day, the dancer Elham finds out the truth about the group, which makes Arnaouti and Bassiouni repent and turn the villa into a hotel but Souad and Nawal have other plans.

Director:  Helmy Rafla

Writers:  Faisal Nada

Stars:  Fouad ElMohandes, Mohamed Awad, Shwikar, Nabila Obeid, Nagwa Fouad, Zozo Shakib, Fifi Youssef, Fahmy Aman, Abdel Moneim Bassiouni, Helmy Halim, Fatima Wagdy, Abbas Al-Daly, Abdel Moneim Al-Nimr, Abdel Moneim Abdel-Rahman, Hassan Anis, S...

March 15, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

The Water Carrier Died (1977)

— 103 min - Drama - 20 November 1977

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The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in the pursuit of pleasure because he recognizes that death will bring an end to all enjoyment. They meet and become friends. Through this friendship the water carrier is encouraged to change his morbid way of thinking and to enjoy life.

Director:  Salah Abu Seif

Writers:  Mohsen Zayed, Youssef El Sebai, Naguib Eskandar

Stars:  Ezzat Al Alaily, Far...

March 6, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

The Sixth Day (1986)

— 105 min - Drama - 29 September 1986

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Egypt, 1947: in the midst of a cholera outbreak. A washerwoman tries to take care of her family, while at the same time resisting the advances of a charming suitor who's half her age.

Director:  Youssef Chahine

Writers:  Youssef Chahine, Hassan El Geretly, Andrea Shedid

Stars:  Dalida, Mohsen Mohey ElDein, Shwikar, Hamdy Ahmed, Youssef Chahine, Abla Kamel, Sanaa Younes, Salah El-Saadany, Mohamed Mounir, Hamdy Ahmed, Saif Abdel Rahman, Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab, Hassan El Adl, Hesham Abdel Hamid, Maher Essam, Mohamed Dardeery, Mohga Abdel Rahman, Maher Selim, Tamim Abdo, Osama Abdullah, Youss...