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Bayn al-Qasrayn

Original title: Between Two Palaces
1964 · 2 h 15 min
Directed by Hassan Al-Imam
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Cast

Yehia Chahine Zizi El Badrawy Maha Sabry Abdel Moneim Ibrahim Salah Qabil Amal Zayed

Credits

Written by: Naguib Mahfouz

Plot

A strict, authoritarian father in 1910s Cairo rules his family, while his sons and daughters live through love and the nationalist movement. The first part of Mahfouz's Cairo Trilogy.

Sinekatalog’s take

A major adaptation of the Egyptian literary classic.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.0 / 10 (236 votes)
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