The Yacoubian Building
- Released on
- Runtime
- 161 mins
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.
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.
Cast
- Adel Emam
- Nour El-Sherif
- Hend Sabry
- Mohamed Imam
- Esaad Younes
- Khaled El Sawy
- Yousra
- Ahmad Rateb
- Ahmad Bedir
- Somaya El Khashab
- Khaled Saleh
- Bassem Samra
- Youssef Daoud
- Talaat Zakaria
- Gihan Kamary
- Tamer Abdelmonem
- Said Tarabeek
- Yasser Ali Maher
- Salwa Othman
- Laila Samy
- Mohamed El Dafrawi
- Hamdi Heikal
- Abbas Abu Elhassan
- Mohamed Gomaa
- Yehia El Fakharany
- Ahmed Salah ElSaadany
- Amgad Abed
- Yousuf Hafez
- Asser Yassin
- Hamdy El Ramly
Director
- Marwan Hamed
Producers
- Ayman Shawky
- Adel Adeeb
- Emad El-Den Adib
- Nabil Sobhy
Screenwriter
- Wahid Hamid
