FILM000129

From world-renowned Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine (Destiny, Alexandria…Why?), THE OTHER is a delirious love story between Adam (Hani Salama), the son of a corrupt, domineering female industrialist, and Hanane, a beautiful but impoverished newspaper reporter.
Unfortunately, Adam’s mother Nargaret (Nabila Ebeid) is possessive to point of violence and will stop at nothing to get rid of Hanane. In her efforts to control her son, Margaret bribes her daughter-in-law’s brother, a fanatical thug who belongs to a fundamentalist terrorist cult, to lure Hanane into a deadly trap.
Among the passionate embraces, extravagant musical numbers and a stirring vision of a harmonious, multi-cultural Middle East, Chahine unravels the connections among naked greed, corrupt power, Western “globalization” and religious fanaticism.

1999

101 mins

The KimStim Collection

Drama, Romance

Arabic, English

Egypt

http://arabcinemadb.alc.manchester.ac.uk/Public/Film/Show/FILM000129

Youssef Chahine: Winner Lifetime Achievement Award 50th Cannes Film Festival