Al Ard - La terre

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Youssef Chahine’s adaptation of Marxist writer Abd al-Rahman al-Sharqawi’s 1953 novel, set in the 1930s, is an epic chronicle of life in a rural Egyptian village. The main plot concerns the unsuccessful attempts of the villagers to retain their access to water. Told that they can only irrigate their land a few days a month, several of the villagers are arrested for overwatering. Although the outside threat originally seems to unite the villagers, divisions resurface, and one of them is bought off by the local bey, representative of the ruling class in general.

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Original TitleAl Ard - La terre
TitleAl Ard - La terre
Directed byYoussef Chahine
CountryEgypt
Year1969
ScreenplayHassan Fuad, Abderrahman Charkawi (Roman)
Film EditingRashida Abdel Salam
SoundtrackAli Ismail
CinematographyAbdelhalim Nasr
SoundJohn Knight
Costumes
Production Design
Production
FormatsDVD, DCP
Runtime130 min.
LanguageArabisch/d/f
CastHamdy Ahmed, Yehia Chahine, Ezzat El Alaili, Tewfik El Dekn, Ali El Scherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Salah El-Saadany, Nagwa Ibrahim

Credits

Original TitleAl Ard - La terre
TitleAl Ard - La terre
Directed byYoussef Chahine
CountryEgypt
Year1969
ScreenplayHassan Fuad, Abderrahman Charkawi (Roman)
Film EditingRashida Abdel Salam
SoundtrackAli Ismail
CinematographyAbdelhalim Nasr
SoundJohn Knight
Costumes
Production Design
Production
FormatsDVD, DCP
Runtime130 min.
LanguageArabisch/d/f
CastHamdy Ahmed, Yehia Chahine, Ezzat El Alaili, Tewfik El Dekn, Ali El Scherif, Mahmoud El-Meliguy, Salah El-Saadany, Nagwa Ibrahim

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