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Alexandria… Why? (1979)
Directed by Youssef Chahine
Overview
Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
Rated NR | Length 133 minutes
Actors
محسن محيي الدين | Mahmoud el-Meliguy | Mohsena Tawfik | Abdalla Mahmoud | Ahmad Zaki | Naglaa Fathy | Ahmed Mehrez | Gerry Sundquist | Laila Hamada | Farid Shawqi | Zeinab Sedky | Ezzat El Alaili | Youssef Wahby | Yehia Chahine | Leila Fawzi | Abdel Warith Assir | Abdelsalam Mohamed | Seif El Dine | Abdel Aziz Makhyoun | Ahmad Bedir | Aida Kamel | Zouzou Hamdy El-Hakim | Hassan Hussein | Ali Ezz Eldein | Antic Melkior | أحمد سلامة | Naima El Soghier | Muhammad Abu Hasheesh | Rashad Osman | Ali Jawhar | Ahmed Abdel Wareth | عقيلة راتب | Osama Abbas | محمد شوقي | Hamdi Al Wazir | Samiha Muhammad | Naeim Issa