The City

The City

105 mins | Drama | Aug. 1, 1999

Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery, and takes a part in a cheap play, while his father wants him to start working in fruit trade. Ali pursues his long-lived dream of traveling abroad and flies to France with an acting troupe, where he starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs, and starts a life-changing experience that he won't remember fully until he returns to Egypt.

The City

105 mins | Drama | Aug. 1, 1999

The City
Ali, an aspiring actor, works in a government-aided butchery, and takes a part in a cheap play, while his father wants him to start working in fruit trade. Ali pursues his long-lived dream of traveling abroad and flies to France with an acting troupe, where he starts living illegally alongside many other Arabs, and starts a life-changing experience that he won't remember fully until he returns to Egypt.
IMDb rating 6.7
Producers MISR International Films
Original title المدينة
Directors Mona Assaad, Emad Al Bahhat, Nadia Kamel, Fabrice Fornaciari, Yousry Nasrallah, Massoud Hattau
Writers Nasser Abdulrahman, Nasser Abdel-Rahman, Yousry Nasrallah, Claire Denis

Cast

Bassem Samra

as Ali

Ahmed Azmy

as Yasser

Zaki Fateen Abdel Wahab

as The Director

Bassma

as Nadia

Roschdy Zem

as Roschdy /

Abla Kamel

as The Mother

Yousra

as ضيفة شرف