21 September 1991 Factual 23 mins
This concise masterpiece began as a commission by French TV for the news series Envoyé spécial. By filming Cairo with his unique sense of artistic digression, Chahine transformed this portrait of a city into the self-portrait of a filmmaker.
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Youssef Chahine as Self
Khaled Youssef as Self
Khaled El Nabawy as Self
Bassem Samra as Self
Hassan El Adl as Self
Sanaa Younes as Self
Hussein al-Imam as Self
Safaa Al Toukhy as Self
Mohamed Noah Music
Nahed Nasrallah Costume Design
Youssef Chahine Director
Rashida Abdel Salam Editor
Tarek El Tilmisany Director of Photography
Al-qahira menauwwara bi Ahlaha Trailer
Le Caire... raconté par Youssef Chahine Trailer
United States 21 September 1991
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25 January 1991
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05 April 1991
Carmen, a journalist with two children, is on her third marriage, to Antonio, a record producer. Over the course of a year, we follow her through her discontents: Antonio's lateness, his fatigue when she wants to make love, his insistence on her company when she prefers solitude, his treating her work as less important than his, his casual and cruel dismissal of her opinions, her boss assigning her an incompetent editor, bartenders ignoring her, her passage into middle age.
01 January 1991
Documentary about the making of The Changer and The Changed, an album recorded by Cris Williamson in 1975 that became one of the icons of women's music.
22 November 1991
Talented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.
01 January 1991
Happy couple Geoffrey and Lillian move out to a rural country location so Geoffrey can concentrate on his work.
01 December 1991
A man begins suspecting that his best friend may be involved in an international crime ring.
27 June 1991
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01 January 1991
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22 October 1991
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25 February 1991
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1991 MISR International Films, The National Center of Cinema.