Bab el-Hadid
Director:
Youssef ChahineCámara:
Alevise OrfanelliMúsica:
Fouad El-ZahryReparto:
Farid Shawqi, Hind Rustum, Youssef Chahine, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Abdel Ghani Nagdi, Loufti El Hakim, Abdel Hamid Bodaoha, F. El Demerdache, Said El Araby (más)Sinopsis(1)
Youssef Chahine directs and stars in this bittersweet, neo-realist drama about a crippled newspaper vendor who falls for a gorgeous lemonade seller. Qinawi (Chahine) is in love with Hanouma (Hind Rostom). But Hanouma is engaged to rugged station worker Abu-Serih (Farid Chawqi). As Abu-Serih attempts to unionize the station workers, Qinawi's fixation on Hanouma crosses the threshold from innocent crush to dangerous obsession. (texto oficial de la distribuidora)
(más)Reseñas (2)
Para su época y, sobre todo, para su país de origen (¡!), un retrato muy audaz de la obsesión morbosa de un pobre hombre en la Estación Central de El Cairo, que se fija peligrosamente en una belleza local. Este elocuente film-noir sobre la pobreza, la decadencia moral y la insatisfactoria situación social en el Egipto de los años cincuenta debió de ser una espina clavada en casi todo el mundo, por lo que solo fue apreciado décadas después. Para mí una sorpresa interesante. [KVIFF 2019]
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I must admit that I was quite surprised to find out that Egypt has its own cinema, and moreover, there are films in it, or at least one film, that is not bad at all. It has something of neorealism in it, but I had a feeling that I was watching a film that takes elements from American film noir as well. The madness at the end is truly beautifully captured.
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