L'immeuble Yacoubian:

L'immeuble Yacoubian gives us a lively, sometimes harsh and often funny look at modern Egyptian society. The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since it was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's...

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Format: Video Software
Language:French
Arabic
Published: [France?] BAC Video c2005
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Summary:L'immeuble Yacoubian gives us a lively, sometimes harsh and often funny look at modern Egyptian society. The Yacoubian Building holds all that Egypt was and has become over the 75 years since it was built on one of downtown Cairo's main boulevards. From the pious son of the building's doorkeeper and the raucous, impoverished squatters on its roof, via the tattered aristocrat and the gay intellectual in its apartments, to the ruthless businessman whose stores occupy its ground floor, each sharply etched character embodies a facet of modern Egypt - one where political corruption, ill-gotten wealth, and religious hypocrisy are natural allies, where the arrogance and defensiveness of the powerful find expression in the exploitation of the weak, where youthful idealism can turn quickly to extremism, and where an older, less violent version of society may yet prevail
Item Description:Based on the novel by ʻAlāʼ Aswānī. - DVD ; region 2 ; PAL.
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Cast: Adel Imam, Yosra, Nour Elsherif, Hend Sabry
Music, Khaled Hammad
Physical Description:1 DVD (160 min.) sd., col. 4 3/4 in

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