The Sparrow

Aug 26, 1972

1h 50m

★ 6.3

Overview

Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

أفلام مصر العالمية (يوسف شاهين وشركاه)

MH Films

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Cast

Raouf

Seif Abdelrahman

Fatima

Habiba

Youssef Fathallah

Salah Qabil

Baheya

Mohsena Tawfiq

Sheikh Ahmed

Ali Al Sharif

Ismail

Salah Mansour

Johnny

Mahmoud El Meligy

Auf

Hamdy Ahmed

Mariam Fakhr Eddine

Zubaida

Ragaa Hussein

Reyad

Mahmoud Qabil

Hassan El Baroudy

Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named Samah who had befriended Facebook in an attempt to ease his isolation.

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