The Emigrant (1994)
September 26, 1994Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Yousra
Simihit
Khaled El Nabawy
Ram
Khaled Nabawy
Ram
Mahmoud Hemida
Amihar
Ahmad Bedir
Tut
Safia ElEmary
Basma
Michel Piccoli
Adam
Hanan Turk
Hati
Youssef Chahine
Director
Seif Abdelrahman
Sailor
Khaled Youssef
Writer
Humbert Balsan
Producer
Ahmed Salama
Perry
Gabriel Khoury
Producer
Ahmed Fouad Selim
Jader
Mohammad Nouh
Composer
Hassan Abdel Hamid
Amon
Fayeq Azab
Adam's voice
Kamal Mansour
Akhenaten's voice
Rashida Abdel Salam
Editor
Ramses Marzouk
Director of Photography
Nahed Nasrallah
Costume Design
Hamed Hemdan
Production Design
Rafik El Saban
Writer
Media.
Details.
Release DateSeptember 26, 1994
Original Nameالمهاجر
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 36m
Genres
Wiki.
The Emigrant (Egyptian Arabic: المهاجر, translit. Al Mohager) is a 1994 Egyptian film by Youssef Chahine. The film is listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films.The release of this film, which is loosely based on the story of the Biblical Joseph, raised a storm of protest, since Islam forbids the visual representation of religious figures. This was despite the fact that Chahine changed the names of all of the characters and stripped the story of all its supernatural and miraculous elements. Joseph becomes Ram, Jacob becomes Adam, Potiphar becomes Amihar, and Potiphar's wife, unnamed in the Bible, becomes Simihit, the high priestess of the Cult of Amun. Joseph does not advance because of a miraculous ability to receive and interpret dreams, but because of his personal merits.After achieving all necessary approvals from the censorship authorities, the film ran successfully in Egyptian cinema until a lawsuit initiated by a fundamentalist Islamist lawyer caused a temporary ban. After a year-long court battle, Chahine won the case, only to face a second ban resulting from a lawsuit initiated by a Christian lawyer who objected to the movie's many deviations from the Biblical account.