When people ask about Egypt's best film ever, the first film that comes to the mind is this one, and it's for a good reason.
How the story talks about the life in the Egyptian countryside during the colonial times and kingdom, is so amazing you feel like it was written by the people there themselves.
The story is so complex with a lot of side plots, that give you an exact idea about each character and how you expect them to act in the end. And with all these side plots you're never distracted from the main plot because they all feed it.
The choice for the actors is wonderful, unlike nowadays when they just get the main super stars even if they don't fit the characters at all, everyone in the cast looked, sounded and acted like a peasant perfectly, that sometimes you forget what the real actors looked like.
I am not even going to talk about the editing and the cinematography, this film has iconic shots and scenes that until now they are shared over social media because of how great they are. And this is what we expect from a Yousef Chahine film.
The music is one of the most famous ever in Egyptian cinema, people who haven't seen the film can recognize the music. This is enough to make it one of the greatest in Egyptian cinema as well.
All the reasons above make this film ageless and one of the pillars of The Egyptian Film Industry.
How the story talks about the life in the Egyptian countryside during the colonial times and kingdom, is so amazing you feel like it was written by the people there themselves.
The story is so complex with a lot of side plots, that give you an exact idea about each character and how you expect them to act in the end. And with all these side plots you're never distracted from the main plot because they all feed it.
The choice for the actors is wonderful, unlike nowadays when they just get the main super stars even if they don't fit the characters at all, everyone in the cast looked, sounded and acted like a peasant perfectly, that sometimes you forget what the real actors looked like.
I am not even going to talk about the editing and the cinematography, this film has iconic shots and scenes that until now they are shared over social media because of how great they are. And this is what we expect from a Yousef Chahine film.
The music is one of the most famous ever in Egyptian cinema, people who haven't seen the film can recognize the music. This is enough to make it one of the greatest in Egyptian cinema as well.
All the reasons above make this film ageless and one of the pillars of The Egyptian Film Industry.