Winter of Discontent
Original title: El sheita elli fat
“The Pain That Caused a Fury”
2012 · 1 h 36 min
Directed by 
Ibrahim El-Batout
Ibrahim El-BatoutCast
Amr Waked Farah Youssef Salah Alhanafy Moataz Mosallam Tamer Hamid Ahmed Salama
Credits
Written by: Ahmed Amer Ibrahim El-Batout Yasser Naeim Habi Seoud
Produced by: Salah Alhanafy
Plot
A TV journalist is caught in the Egyptian revolution and a secret police interrogator's world in a drama about complicity and the revolution.
Sinekatalog’s take
A taut political drama of the moment of revolt.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 6.9 / 10 (646 votes)
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