Tribute to Youssef Chahine 2019 / Al-yom al-sadis / Egypt, France 1986
A film about a young grandmother attempting to save her ailing grandson during the cholera outbreak of the late 1940s. Featuring the last screen performance of mega French pop star Dalida, The Sixth Day is one of Chahine’s most elusive, most philosophical treatises. It combines realism, melodrama, musical elements and fantasy.
Chahine delved into externalism in this literary adaptation (based on the novel by Andre Shadid) about a young grandmother attempting to save her ailing grandson during the cholera outbreak of the late 1940s. Featuring the last screen performance of Dalida, one of France’s biggest pop stars, The Sixth Day is one of Chahine’s most elusive, most philosophical treatises. It combines realism, melodrama, musical elements and fantasy in an unwieldy fable that ranks among Chahine’s most enigmatic, most uncategorizable works.
Joseph Fahim
103 min / Color, DCP
Director Youssef Chahine
/ Screenplay Youssef Chahine, Hassan El Gueretly podle románu / based on the novel of the same name by Andrée Chedid
/ Dir. of Photography Mohsen Nasr
/ Music Omar Khayrat
/ Editor Luc Barnier
/ Art Director Tarek Salah El Din
/ Producer Marianne Khoury
/ Production Misr International Films
/ Coproduction Lyric International
/ Cast Dalida, Mohsen Mohy El Deen, Shwekar, Hamdy Ahmed, Sanaa Younis
/ Sales Misr International Films
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