Youssef Chahine
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Youssef Chahine at IFFR
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Chaos
By the great director of Egyptian popular cinema. About a young woman who rebels against the corrupt police chief who has an eye on her. A screenplay
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Silence, on tourne
Intelligent mix of melodrama and comedy by the master of Egyptian cinema. Lightly ironic portrait of the Egyptian world of showbiz is also a subtle re
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Al massir
Grand historic epic about the problems faced by the medieval philosopher Averroës in Moorish Cordoba is a topical and humane plea for freedom.
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Le Caïre
In Le Caire, Youssef Chahine sketches a personal view of Cairo as he shows his home town to a foreign visitor. All the registers are opened to capture the intensity of the colourful and complicated city in pictures. Chahine was given a completely free hand by his client, the French TV station Antenne 2, during […]
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Bab el-hadid
The film, which is known internationally under the title Cairo Station or Gare Central, was interpreted in 1958 by press and public as an insult and the première turned into a scandal. The film provides a warts-and-all picture of the life of young people in modern Cairo and that was not appreciated. These days it […]