The Yacoubian Building (2006)
2h 41m
Running Time
June 1, 2006Release Date
The Yacoubian Building (2006)
2h 41m
Running Time
June 1, 2006Release Date
Plot.
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zaki, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pious Hajj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy his sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, wants to support her family with her 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 Coptic brothers, one a tailor and the other being Zaki's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
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Cast & Crew.
Adel Emam
Zaki El Dessouki
Nour El-Sherif
Hajj Muhammad Azzam
Hend Sabry
Bothayna El Sayed
Mohamed Imam
Taha El Shazly
Esaad Younes
Dawlat El Dessouki
Essad Youniss
Dawlat El Dessouky
Khaled El Sawy
Hatem Rashed
Yousra
Christine
Ahmad Rateb
Fanous
Ahmad Bedir
Malek
Somaya El Khashab
Soad
Khaled Saleh
Kamal el Fouly
Bassem Samra
Abd Raboh
Youssef Daoud
Fekry Abdel Shaheed
Talaat Zakaria
Bar Owner
Gihan Kamary
Ragaa
Tamer Abdelmonem
Fawzy Muhammad Azzam
Said Tarabeek
Hameedo
Sameh Selim
Cinematographer
Yasser Ali Maher
Sheikh Samman
Alaa Al Aswany
Writer
Marwan Hamed
Director
Wahid Hamid
Screenplay
Khaled Hammad
Original Music Composer
Emad El-Den Adib
Producer
Nabil Sobhy
Producer
Ayman Shawky
Producer
Adel Adeeb
Producer
Khaled Marei
Editor
Hazem Samir
Editor
Yehia El Fakharany
Hamdi Heikal
Media.
Details.
Release DateJune 1, 2006
Original Nameعمارة يعقوبيان
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 41m
Genres
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This Movie Is About.
social commentary
arabian
egypt
historical
cairo
gay theme
Wiki.
The Yacoubian Building (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان, transliterated: ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān or Omaret Yakobean) is a 2006 Egyptian film based on the novel of the same title by author Alaa Al Aswany. It has been reported to be the highest-budgeted film in the history of Egyptian cinema.
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