Shukri Sarhan

A corrupt mayor, who rules the village’s people with power and injustice, forces another poor man’s wife secretly to marry him in order to have a child.Read More »

In this Andre Gide adaptation, an activist is released after many years in prison and returns home, shaking up established relationships among his family members at the farm governed by his strict father. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment. (bam.org)Read More »