Completed - 124 minutes
Year of production : 1976 Director(s) : Youssef CHAHINE
Chahine’s most allegorical film, featuring the bloodiest of all his endings. This bold family saga, Chahine’s first great political picture, concerns a family waiting for the return of the long-absent younger brother to save them from the tyranny of their elder sibling. It is also a work of great physicality that shows the human body in an imposing fashion previously unseen and unexplored in Egyptian cinema.
Country(ies) : EGYPT, ALGERIA
Karlovy Vary IFF 2019 Tribute to Youssef Chahine