Chaos, This Is (Arabic: هي فوضى, romanized: Heya Fawda) is the final film from the Egyptian director Youssef Chahine.
Chaos, This Is | |
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Arabic | هي فوضى |
Directed by | Youssef Chahine Khaled Youssef |
Written by | Nasser Abdel-Rahmane |
Produced by | Misr International, 3 B Productions |
Starring | Khaled Saleh Menna Shalabi Youssef El Sherif Hala Sedki Hala Fakher Dorra Zarrouk |
Cinematography | Ramsis Marzouk |
Edited by | Ghada Ezzedine |
Music by | Yasser Abdel Rahman |
Distributed by | 3B Productions MISR International Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 124 minutes |
Countries | Egypt France |
Language | Arabic |
Synopsis
editHatem, a shady police officer, handles it with an iron hand. Every single citizen fears and hates him. Only Nour, a young woman he lusts after, dares stand up to him. But Nour is secretly in love with Cherif. Green with envy, Hatem tries to come between them. He wants Nour for himself and he rapes her and after she exposed him, the neighborhood mobilizes in a popular riot and occupies the police station, the film ends with Hatim shooting himself in the angry crowd.
External links
edit- Le Chaos at IMDb
- African Film Festival of Cordoba-FCAT (license CC BY-SA-3.0)[dead link]