Tribute to Youssef Chahine 2019 / Awdat al-ibn al dal / Egypt, Algeria 1976
Chahine’s most allegorical film, featuring the bloodiest of all his endings. This bold family saga, Chahine’s first great political picture, concerns a family waiting for the return of the long-absent younger brother to save them from the tyranny of their elder sibling. It is also a work of great physicality that shows the human body in an imposing fashion previously unseen and unexplored in Egyptian cinema.
Chahine’s most allegorical film, featuring the bloodiest of all his endings. The story of a family waiting for the return of the long-absent younger brother to save them from the tyranny of their elder sibling, this bold family saga is Chahine’s first great political work: a symbolic story reflecting the divisions in the Arab World and its collective failure. Abounding in stunning landscape cinematography and employing radically uncommon music, The Return of the Prodigal Son is also a work of great physicality that shows the human body in an imposing fashion previously unseen and unexplored in Egyptian cinema.
Joseph Fahim
124 min / Color, DCP
Director Youssef Chahine
/ Screenplay Youssef Chahine, Salah Jaheen, Farouk Baloufa podle stejnojmenného románu / based on the novel of the same name by André Gide
/ Dir. of Photography Abdel Aziz Fahmy
/ Music Abou Zeid Hassan
/ Editor Rashida Abdel Salam
/ Art Director Magdi Nashed, Mohamed Nady, Mohamed Bou Gemaa
/ Producer Youssef Chahine
/ Production Misr International Films, Oncic
/ Coproduction OCNIC
/ Cast Mahmoud El Meligy, Soheir El Morshedy, Shoukry Sarhan, Hoda Sultan, Raga Hussein
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