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The Yacoubian Building

The Yacoubian Building

Basic Info:

Released Date:

2006-06-21

Languages:

Arabic, French, English

Countries:

Egypt, France

Runtime:

161 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.5 (3885 Reviews)

Director:

Marwan Hamed

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Alaa' Al-Aswany (novel)

Wahid Hamid

Fullplot:

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 fiancè, 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. European values, both refined and worldly, provide a subtext.

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