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Alexandria Again and Forever (1989)
Directed by Youssef Chahine
Overview
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.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Youssef Chahine | Yousra | Hussein Fahmy | Amr Abdel-Geleel | Hesham Selim | Taheya Cariocca | Hoda Soltan | Seif El Dine | Abla Kamel | Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab | Mohamed Henedi | Salah Zulfikar | Rajaa Hussain | Hassan El Adl | Ahmed El Hariri | Tewfik Saleh | Mohammed Tawfik | Hossam El Din Mostafa | Aly Badrakhan | Ahmad Hegazi | Khaled Hamza | Ibrahim Hassanein | Mohga Abdel Rahman | Osama Taha | Yasser Maher | Bahaa Barwat | Tarek Kamel | Isabelle Kamal | Tamer Ashraf | Nadia Abbas | Eyad Abdel Meguid | Saman Achraf | Atef Awad | Mohamed Gebril | Doy Khayal | Mohamed Mostafa | Sameh Saber | Doy Solh | Mina Thabet | Ezzat Al Mashad | Maher Selim | Menha El Batrawy | Tawfiq Al Kurdi | Farouk Al-Fishawy | Ahmed Al Fishawy | Mohamed Fadel | منير مكرم