The City (1999)
المدينة
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.
- Date of release
- 1999-08-01
- TMDB
- 7.4 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Yousry Nasrallah
Casting
- Bassem Samra — Ali
- Mohamed Nagaty — Eid
- Ahmed Azmy — Yasser
- Basma — Nadia
- Abla Kamel — The Mother
- Ahmed Fouad Selim — Atta, Ali's Father
- Amr Saad — Osama
- Serri Al Najjar — Fox
- Roschdy Zem — Roschdy
- Inês de Medeiros — Agnès
- Massoud Hattou — Firas
- Attia Eweiss — Shalabi
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