El Kitkat

Poster for the movie "Kit Kat"
Poster for the movie "Kit Kat"

Kit Kat (1991)

128 min - Comedy, Drama - 9 September 1991
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Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house. * The film is based on the novel (Malik Al-Hazin) by Ibrahim Aslan. * The movie "Kit Kat" won the Golden Award for Best Film at the Damascus International Film Festival in 1991. *The film was ranked 8 among the list of the 100 best films in Arab cinema, according to a poll of film critics and intellectuals conducted by the Dubai International Film Festival in 2013 in the tenth session of the festival.

Director:  Daoud Abdel Sayed
Writers:  Daoud Abdel Sayed
Stars:  Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Amina Rizk, Sherif Mounir, Aida Riad (Fatima), Najah Al-Muji, Ali Hassanein, Ahmed Kamal, Othman Abdel Moneim, Ahmed Sami Abdullah, Jalila Mahmoud, Amal Ibrahim, Salah Sadiq, Muhammad Al-Kilani, Nadia Shams El-Din Ayman Abd al-Rahman (Salem), Jihan Nasr, Muhammad Jibril, Helmy Abd al-Wahhab, Abbas Mansour, Majid Habshi, Nader Abd al-Ghani, Sameh al-Sayyid, Ali Idris, Muhammad al-Jundi, Ahmed Barquqa and Samir Fathi.

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Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house. * The film is based on the novel (Malik Al-Hazin) by Ibrahim Aslan. * The movie "Kit Kat" won the Golden Award for Best Film at the Damascus International Film Festival in 1991. *The film was ranked 8 among the list of the 100 best films in Arab cinema, according to a poll of film critics and intellectuals conducted by the Dubai International Film Festival in 2013 in the tenth session of the festival.


Collections: Daoud Abdel Sayed

Genres: Comedy, Drama

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Country:   Egypt
Language:  Arabic
Release Date:  9 September 1991

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Runtime:  2 h 08 min
Hakam Ghanem
Author: Hakam Ghanem