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Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.Read moreLess
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
The story
Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.
Cast & crew
Youssef ChahineYehia Eskendarany / Marc Antoine / Sostratus / Hephaestion
YousraNadia
Hussein FahmyStelio
Amr Abdel GelilAmr / Alexandre / Hamlet
Hesham SelimMagdy
Tahiya CarioccaTahia
Huda SultanNadia's Mother
Seif AbdelrahmanMohamed Bey
Abla KamelCurator
Zaki Fatin Abdel WahabGuindi
Mohamed HenediCast
Salah ZulfikarSelfExplore the crew
- Writer
- Youssef Chahine
- Director
- Youssef Chahine
- Original Music Composer
- Mohammad Nouh
- Writer
- Yousry Nasrallah
- Producer
- Humbert Balsan
- Producer
- Marianne Khoury
- Editor
- Rashida Abdel Salam
- Director of Photography
- Ramses Marzouk