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The City (1999)
Directed by Yousry Nasrallah
Overview
Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery and takes part in a cheap play. Defying his father’s wishes, he moves to Paris to fulfill his dreams and starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs. Ali has a life-changing experience there that he won’t fully remember until he returns to Egypt.
Length 105 minutes
Actors
Basim Samra | Mohamed Nagati | أحمد عزمي | بسمة | Abla Kamel | Ahmed Fouad Selim | Amr Saad | Serri Al Najjar | Roschdy Zem | Inês de Medeiros | Messaoud Hattau | Ateia Eweiss | Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab | Yousra | Seif El Dine | Menha El Batrawy | Thibault de Montalembert | Arnaud Viard | Hassan El Adl | Randa Al Bishani | Ashraf Sarhan | Alice Taurand | Didier Brengarth | Laurence Goutelle | Sylvie Van den Elsen | Aurélia Alcaïs