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The City (1999)
Directed by Yousry Nasrallah
Drama · 1h 45m
Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father's wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won't fully remember until he returns to Egypt.
Cast
Bassem Samra
Mohamed Nagaty
Ahmed Azmy
Basma
Abla Kamel
Ahmed Fouad Selim
Amr Saad
Serri Al Najjar
Roschdy Zem
Massoud Hattou
Attia Eweiss
Crew
- Director
- Yousry Nasrallah
- Writer
- Nasser Abdulrahman, Claire Denis, Yousry Nasrallah
- Director of Photography
- Samir Bahzan
- Original Music Composer
- Tamer Karawan
- Editor
- Tamer Ezzat
Details
- Original title
- المدينة
- Release date
- 1999-08-01
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic, French
- Countries
- Egypt, France
- Production
- MISR International Films