Summary
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.
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Running time
1 h 45 min
A typical length for dramas
typical 109105Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Released
1999
August 1, 1999
27 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Arabic
Original language
Also spoken
FrenchMade in
Egypt
France
18 people
Bassem SamraAli
Mohamed NagatyEid
Ahmed AzmyYasser
BasmaNadia
Abla KamelThe Mother
Ahmed Fouad SelimAtta, Ali's Father
Amr SaadOsama
Serri Al NajjarFox
Roschdy ZemRoschdy
Inês de MedeirosAgnès
Massoud HattouFiras
Attia EweissShalabi
Zaki Fatin Abdel WahabThe Director / Tifa
YousraYousra
Seif AbdelrahmanStage Actor
Menha BatraouiHotel Owner
Hassan El-AdlSaeed- RERanda El BishaniFathiya
Directing · 2
- Yousry Nasrallah Director, Writer
- Nadia Kamel Assistant Director
Writing · 3
- Claire Denis Writer
- Nasser Abdulrahman Writer
- Mohamed Nasser Lyricist
Production · 4
- Humbert Balsan Executive Producer
- Marianne Khoury Executive Producer
- Gabriel Khoury Executive Producer
- Annette Trumel Casting
Camera · 1
- Samir Bahzan Director of Photography
Editing · 1
- Tamer Ezzat Editor
Sound · 4
- Tamer Karawan Original Music Composer
- Waldir Xavier Sound Editor
- Dominique Hennequin Sound Mixer
- Jérôme Ayasse Sound Engineer
Art · 1
- Salah Marei Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up · 2
- Souraya Baghdadi Costume Design
- Nahed Nasrallah Costume Design
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