The Bus Driver

★★★★★

Original title: Sawwaq el-Utubis

1982 · 1 h 47 min

Directed by Atef El-Tayeb

Drama

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Cast

Nour El-Sherif Mervat Amin Imad Hamdi Neamat Abdelnasser Sharif Abdulhamid Aaliyah Abdulmoneim

Plot

A Cairo bus driver struggles with poverty and a brother's debts, and the life of the city's ordinary people closes in on him. Starring Nour El-Sherif.

Sinekatalog’s take

A solid, humane Egyptian realist drama.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.9 / 10 (957 votes)
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