- By :
- Marwan HAMED
- With :
- Adel IMAM
- Egypt, 2006
- 172 min
The most popular Egyptian film of all times is an adaptation of the book by the same name, and tells the stories of the people inhabiting a legendary Cairo building.
The Yacoubian building, built in 1930 in the heart of Cairo, is the vestige of a magnificent and long gone era, and the film – Egypt’s most popular and expensive production – an adaptation of Alaa al-Aswani’s book by the same from 2002.
Set in 1990, the award-winning film directed by Marwad Hamed tells the brutally honest and moving intertwining stories of the people living in the building, and through them the story about a modern Egypt ravaged by corruption and fundamentalism. What used to be a blooming society suffers from social injustice and moral restrictions that limit the freedom of its citizens, who long for the good old days to come back.
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