Tribute to Youssef Chahine 2019 / Siraa fil wadi / Egypt 1954
A melodrama about a young agricultural engineer who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner. Chahine’s first socially-conscious work, one that openly discussed the growing rift between the decaying aristocracy and the rising working class. It also features the screen debut of Egyptian film icon Omar Sharif.
A melodrama about a young agricultural engineer who falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy landowner, Chahine’s sixth film in four years would become his second film to be selected for the Cannes competition. Released two years after the Egyptian revolution, traces of neo-realism are detected in Chahine’s first socially-conscious work, one that openly discussed the growing rift between the decaying aristocracy and the rising working class. It also features the screen debut of Egyptian film icon Omar Sharif.
Joseph Fahim
116 min / Black & white, DCP
Director Youssef Chahine
/ Screenplay Aly El Zorkany, Helmy Halim
/ Dir. of Photography Ahmed Khorsheid
/ Music Fouad El Zahery
/ Editor Kamal Abou Al Ela
/ Art Director Maher Abdel Nour
/ Producer Gabriel Telhamy
/ Production Gabriel Telhamy
/ Cast Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Farid Chawky, Abdel Waress Asr, Hamdy Ghiess
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