Cairo Station (1958)
Cairo Station (1958)
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This Movie Is About.
Cast & Crew.
Farid Shawqi
Abu Siri
Hend Rostom
Hanuma
Youssef Chahine
Qinawi / Director
Hassan el Baroudi
Madbouli
Abdel Aziz Khalil
Abu Gaber
Abd Al-Aziz Khalil
Abu Gaber
Ahmed Abaza
Mansour
Esmat Mahmoud
Hussein Ismail
Train passenger
Naima Wasfi
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Abdel Hamid Badawi
Shawish Hassanein
Abdel Hamid Bodaoha
Actor
Said Khalil
Jadallah
Gabriel Telhami
Producer
Mohamed Abu Youssef
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Details.
Release DateJuly 31, 1958
Original Nameباب الحديد
StatusReleased
Running Time1h 26m
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Wiki.
Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian crime-drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and Abdel Hay Adib, and starring Farid Shawqi and Hind Rostom. The plot follows a newspaper salesman's dangerous obsession with a pretty young refreshments seller amidst a serial killer's spree through Cairo.
Submitted for competition in the 8th Berlin International Film Festival, it was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Since the 1970s, the film has found renewed interest with new generations of international film lovers and has been hailed as a masterpiece in the style of neorealist cinema.