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Return of the Prodigal Son (1976)
Directed by Youssef Chahine
Drama, Music · 2h 05m
Freed after spending years in prison, an activist's homecoming turns into a dark affair as his disillusion clashes with his family's expectations. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.
Cast
Hesham Selim
Ibrahim Tolba Madbouly
Majida El Roumi
Tafida Hassouna
Ahmed Mehrez
Ali Mohamed Madbouly
Shoukry Sarhan
Tolba Mohamed Madbouly
Huda Sultan
Ratiba, the Mother
Mahmood Al-Meleji
Mohamed Madbouly
Soheir El Morshedy
Fatima Tawfiq Hassan
Sid Ali Kouiret
Hassouna
Ragaa Hussein
Lawahez - Hassouna's wife
Ali Al Sharif
Clown
Ahmed Abdel Wareth
Captain Hossam
Ahmad Bedir
Ahmed Al-Taweel
Crew
- Director
- Youssef Chahine
- Screenplay
- Salah Jahin
- Writer
- Youssef Chahine, Farouk Beloufa
- Director of Photography
- Abdel Aziz Fahmy
- Original Music Composer
- Baleegh Hamdy, Kamal Al Taweel
- Editor
- Rashida Abdel Salam
- Producer
- Youssef Chahine, Mahmoud El Kholy, Seif Abdelrahman
Details
- Original title
- عودة الابن الضال
- Release date
- 1976-09-24
- Runtime
- 2h 05m
- Genres
- Drama, Music
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic
- Countries
- Algeria, Egypt
- Production
- Office National pour le Commerce et l'Industrie Cinématographique (ONCIC), MISR International Films