The Yacoubian Building
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancรฉ, Taha, the janitor’s son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika’s factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone’s lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
Views: 108
Genre: Drama
Director: Marwan Hamed
Actors: Adel Emam, Ahmad Bedir, Ahmed Rateb, Esaad Younes, Hend Sabry, Khaled El Sawy, Khaled Saleh, Nour El-Sherif, Somaya El Khashab, Yousra
Country: Egypt, France
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