The Yacoubian Building

The Yacoubian Building

161 mins | Drama | June 1, 2006

Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.

The Yacoubian Building

161 mins | Drama | June 1, 2006

The Yacoubian Building
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Good News, Arab Co
Original title عمارة يعقوبيان
Directors Marwan Hamed
Writers Alaa Al Aswany, Wahid Hamid

Cast

Adel Emam

as زكي الدسوقي

Nour El-Sherif

as محمد عزام

Hend Sabry

as بثينة

Esaad Younes

as دولت دسوقي

Khaled El Sawy

as حاتم راشد

Yousra

as كريستين

Ahmed Rateb

as فانوس

Ahmad Bedir

as مالك

Somaya El Khashab

as سعاد

Khaled Saleh

as كمال الفولي

Bassem Samra

as عبد ربه

Mohamed Imam

as Taha El Shazly

Youssef Daoud

as فكري عبدالشاهد

Talaat Zakaria

as مالك البار

Gihan Kamary

as رباب

Tamer Abdelmonem

as فوزي محمد عزام

Said Tarabeek

as حميدو

Yasser Ali Maher

as Sheikh Samman