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Date Wine (1999)
Directed by Radwan El Kashef
Drama · 1h 48m
Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.
Cast
Sherihan
Abla Kamel
Mohamed Nagaty
Manal Afifi
Hamdy Ahmad
Fayza Amasaib
Gamal Ismail
Seif Abdelrahman
Lobna Mahmoud
Kamal Soliman
Crew
- Director
- Radwan El Kashef
- Writer
- Radwan El Kashef
- Director of Photography
- Tarek El Tilmisany
- Original Music Composer
- Yasser Abdel Rahman
- Editor
- Rashida Abdel Salam
- Producer
- Wasif Fayez
Details
- Original title
- عرق البلح
- Release date
- 1999-06-23
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- AR
- Spoken languages
- Arabic
- Countries
- Egypt
- Production
- أفلام مصر العربية (واصف فايز)