La Ville
A Feature film of
Produced by
Production year1998
French release05/07/2000
Runtime1 h 49 min
Synopsis
Ali, a butcher's accountant in Cairo, wants to become an actor. He's part of an amateur theater troupe; it's the only thing that excites him, it's the dream that helps him carry on. After Rod El-Farag, the market where he works, is destroyed, he decides to pack up and head for Paris. In the Menilmontant district, he gets a job boxing in rigged fights. He quickly becomes disillusioned and attempts to break away, but his "protectors" won't let him go. After an accident, he sinks into total amnesia. Once he's back home, he remains convinced that only the theater allows him a glimmer of the world and that the true voyage is the one you take in your own head.
Credits
Director (1)
Actors (9)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Ognon Pictures
- Co-production : La Sept Cinéma
- Foreign production company : Misr International Films
- Film exports/foreign sales : Pyramide International
- French distribution : Pyramide Distribution
Full credits (9)
- Executive Producers : Humbert Balsan, Marianne Khoury, Gabriel Khoury
- Screenwriters : Yousry Nasrallah, Nasser Abdel-Rahmane, Claire Denis
- Director of Photography : Samir Bahsan
- Music Composer : Tamer Karaouan
- Editor : Tamer Ezzat
- Costume designer : Nahed Nasrallah
- Press Attaché (film) : Agnès Wildenstein
- Sound Editor : Waldir Xavier
- Production Designers : Salah Merei, Alain-Georges Ferrero
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Technical details
- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Production language : Arabic
- Coproducer countries : Egypt, France
- Original French-language productions : Unspecified
- Nationality : Majority French (Egypt, France)
Box-office & releases
TV broadcasting
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