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The Blazing Sun (Sira Fi Al-Wadi )

  • Dir: Youssef Chahine

  • Egypt , 1954, Arabic, 116mins, DCP

  • Cast: Faten Hamama, Omar Sharif, Zaki Rostom

Actor Omar Sharif shot to stardom after his powerful portrayal of Ahmed, an engineer who helps a peasant community increase its harvest. Envisioning a bright future, he finds himself torn between duty and love, lost in a burning landscape, when he discovers that his father becomes the victim of a malicious scheme by the power – who is intent to flood the peasants’ fields and destroy their community. Chahine brilliantly orchestrates this star-filled political melodrama, sketching the network of interests and alliances that threaten to veer into tragedy.

Cannes Film Festival: In Competition

Screening:

In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.