Date Wine (1999)
عرق البلح
Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.
- Date of release
- 1999-06-23
- TMDB
- 6.8 / 10 (14)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Radwan El Kashef
Casting
- Sherihan — Salma
- Abla Kamel — Salima
- Mohamed Nagaty — Ahmed Mustafa Ismail
- Manal Afifi — Shifa
- Hamdy Ahmad — Mute Grandpa
- Fayza Amasaib — Grandma Zen
- Gamal Ismail — Mohammed Ismail
- Seif Abdelrahman — Salem
- Madiha ElSayed — Amna
- Lobna Mahmoud — Umm Salma
- Abdullah Mahmoud
- Kamal Soliman — Syed
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