YACOUBIAN BUILDING - DVD

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• Release Year: 2006
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts. European values, both refined and worldly, provide a subtext.
• Cast: Adel Imam, Nour El-Sherif, Youssra, Essad Youniss, Ahmed Bedir, Hend Sabri, Khaled El Sawy, Khaled Saleh, Ahmed Rateb, Somaya El Khashab, Bassem Samra, Mohamed Imam, Youseff Daoud, Talaat Zakaria, Yehia El-Fakharany, Wael Mahassad, Jihan Qamary, Salwa Othman, Marwan Hamed, Wahid Hamid, Alaa' Al-Aswany
• Director: Marwan Hamed
• Runtime: 2:31
• Company: Mongrel Media
• Media Format: Movie