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The Sparrow (1972)
Directed by Youssef Chahine
Drama · 1h 50m
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Cast
Seif Abdelrahman
Habiba
Salah Qabil
Mohsena Tawfiq
Ali Al Sharif
Mahmood Al-Meleji
Hamdy Ahmad
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Ragaa Hussein
Mahmoud Qabil
Hassan El Baroudy
Crew
- Director
- Youssef Chahine
- Writer
- Youssef Chahine, Lotfy El Kholy
- Director of Photography
- Mustafa Imam
- Original Music Composer
- Ali Ismail
- Editor
- Rashida Abdel Salam
- Producer
- Youssef Chahine, Ahmed Rachedi
Details
- Original title
- العصفور
- Release date
- 1972-08-26
- Runtime
- 1h 50m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic
- Countries
- Egypt, Algeria
- Production
- MISR International Films, MH Films