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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.
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 69GoodWatch 69
IMDb6.9
Running time
1 h 50 min
A typical length for dramas
typical 109110Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Released
1972
August 26, 1972
54 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Arabic
Original language
Made in
Egypt
Algeria
and 9 more12 people
Directing · 2
- Youssef Chahine Director, Writer, Producer
- Ali Badrakhan Assistant Director
Writing · 2
- Lotfy El Kholy Writer
- Ahmad Fouad Negm Lyricist
Production · 1
- Ahmed Rachedi Producer
Camera · 1
- Mustafa Imam Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Rashida Abdel Salam Editor
Sound · 3
- Ali Ismail Original Music Composer
- Mohsena Tawfiq Songs
- Sheikh Imam Songs
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