Tribute to Youssef Chahine 2019 / Wadda't hubbak / Egypt 1957
In his second musical, Chahine directs another hybrid production set against the backdrop of a terminally ill marine sergeant who falls in love with his nurse. This largely forgotten musical melodrama is another demonstration of Chahine’s versatility and his disregard for genre rules.
Youssef Chahine was a big fan of MGM musicals and particularly Gene Kelly. In his second musical, Chahine yet again directs another hybrid production in a story of a terminally ill marine sergeant who falls in love with his nurse. Fronted by two of Egypt’s most beloved singers, Farid El Atrach and Shadia, this largely forgotten musical melodrama is another demonstration of Chahine’s versatility and his disregard for genre rules. It also contains what would transpire to be one of the cornerstones of Chahine’s filmmaking: the inventive and unusual use of music in his genre-bending pictures.
Joseph Fahim
100 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Youssef Chahine
/ Screenplay El Sayed Bedeir
/ Dir. of Photography Ahmed Khorsheid
/ Music Farid El Atrach
/ Editor Said El Sheikh, Hussein Affifi
/ Art Director Hagoup Aslanian
/ Producer Farid El Atrach
/ Production Farid El Atrach Films
/ Cast Farid El Atrach, Shadia, Ahmed Ramzi, Abdelsalam El Naboulsy
/ Sales Misr International Films
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