The Land (1969 film)
1969 drama film by Youssef Chahine
| The Land | |
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| Directed by | Youssef Chahine |
| Written by | Abd al-Rahman Sharqawi Hassan Fuad |
| Starring | Mahmoud El-Meliguy Yehia Chahine Ezzat El Alaili Hamdy Ahmed |
| Cinematography | Abdelhalim Nasr |
| Edited by | Rashida Abdel Salam |
| Music by | Ali Ismail |
Release date |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Egyptian Arabic |
The Land (Arabic: الأرض, translit. al-ʿarḍ) is a 1969 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, based on a popular novel by Abd al-Rahman Sharqawi. The film narrates the conflict between peasants and their landlord in rural Egypt in the 1930s, and explores the complex relation between individual interests and collective responses to oppression. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.[1]
Cast
- Mahmoud El-Meliguy as Mohamed Abu Swelam
- Yehia Chahine as Hassuna
- Ezzat El Alaili as Abd El-Hadi
- Hamdy Ahmed as Mohammad Effendi
- Tewfik El Dekn as Khedr
- Salah El-Saadany as Elwani
- Ali El Scherif as Diab
- Nagwa Ibrahim as Wassifa
References
- ^ "Festival de Cannes: The Land". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 April 2009.
External links
- The Land at IMDb
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Films directed by Youssef Chahine
- Son of the Nile (1951)
- The Blazing Sun (1954)
- Struggle in the Pier (1956)
- Cairo Station (1958)
- Jamila, the Algerian (1958)
- Forever Yours (1959)
- Saladin the Victorious (1963)
- Dawn of a New Day (1965)
- The Nile and the Life (1968)
- The Land (1969)
- The Choice (1970)
- Those People of the Nile (1972)
- The Return of the Prodigal Son (1976)
- Alexandria... Why? (1979)
- An Egyptian Story (1982)
- Adieu Bonaparte (1985)
- Alexandria Again and Forever (1989)
- The Emigrant (1994)
- Lumière and Company (1995)
- Destiny (1997)
- The Other (1999)
- 11′09″01 September 11 (2002)
- Alexandria... New York (2004)
- To Each His Own Cinema (2007)
- Chaos, This Is (2007)
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