The Champion (1997)
البطل
On the eve of the 1919 revolution in Egypt, the friendship between Houda al-Najjar, who likes boxing, Petro, who likes to sing, and the good worker of the printing press, believes in revolution. Fatima, the sister of Houda, is in love with Hussain, and they marry. The revolution takes place, and Houda dreams of shaking hands with its leader, Saad Zaghloul, and dreams of participating in the 1924 Olympics as a boxer. Hasan is imprisoned for his involvement in resisting the British occupation, and Huda is married to a neighbor of Hanifa. Hassan was killed by the Israeli occupation forces and Houda was able to participate in the Olympics
- Date of release
- 1997-04-07
- TMDB
- 3.0 / 10 (1)
- Runtime
- 2h 0m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Magdy Ahmed Aly
Casting
- Ahmed Zaki — Mahmoud (Houda Kalawi)
- Mostafa Qmar — Pietro Ghattas
- Mohamed Henedi — Hassan Halim
- Magda El Khatib — Umm Houda
- Hasan Hosny — Uncle Ghattas
- Abeer Sabry — Hanifa Abdel Badie
- Ghada Abdel Razek
- Fathy Abdel Wahab — Nour
- Caroline Khalil — Yasmine Muhammad Shafiq Ali
- Mohammad Lotfi — circus player
- Ahmed Al Fishawy — Alex - Yasmine's friend
- Mohamed Al-Adl — Thug
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