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Akher ayam el madina = In the last days of the city / director, Tamer El Said ; writers, Tamer El Said, Rasha Salti ; production company, Zero Production, Sunny Land Film, Mengamuk Films.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: BWP 017 | Big World PicturesLanguage: Arabic Original language: Arabic Subtitle language: English Publisher: [United States] : Big World Pictures, [2017]Description: 1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
ISBN:
  • 156730527X
  • 9781567305272
Other title:
  • In the last days of the city
  • Also known as In den letzten Tagen der Stadt
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Director of photography, Bassem Fayad ; editors, Mohamed Abdel Gawad. Vartan Avakian, Barbara Bousset ; producers, Tamer El Said, Khalid Abdalla.
Cast: Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hana Youssef, Maryam Saleh, Hayder Helo, Basim Hajar, Bassem Fayad, Ali Sobhi, Islam Kamal, Mohamed Gaber, Abla Fadila.Summary: Downtown Cairo, 2009. Khalid, a 35 year old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends, who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living--IMDb.
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Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult DVD Adult DVD Dr. James Carlson Library DVD WORLD Akher ay Available 33111009498037
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The debut feature of filmmaker Tamer El Said tells the fictional story of a filmmaker from downtown Cairo as he struggles to capture the soul of a city on edge while facing loss in his own life. Shot in Cairo, Beirut, Baghdad, and Berlin during the two years before the outbreak of revolution in Egypt, the film's multi-layered stories are a visually rich exploration of friendship, loneliness, loss, and life in cities shaped by shadows of war and adversity.

DVD format.

In Arabic with English subtitles.

Title from disc label; credits from IMDb.

Khalid Abdalla, Laila Samy, Hana Youssef, Maryam Saleh, Hayder Helo, Basim Hajar, Bassem Fayad, Ali Sobhi, Islam Kamal, Mohamed Gaber, Abla Fadila.

Director of photography, Bassem Fayad ; editors, Mohamed Abdel Gawad. Vartan Avakian, Barbara Bousset ; producers, Tamer El Said, Khalid Abdalla.

Originally released in 2016.

Downtown Cairo, 2009. Khalid, a 35 year old filmmaker is struggling to make a film that captures the soul of his city while facing loss in his own life. With the help of his friends, who send him footage from their lives in Beirut, Baghdad and Berlin, he finds the strength to keep going through the difficulty and beauty of living--IMDb.

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