Thu October 17, 2019
Arab Classics: Encounter With The Unknown at the 23rd Arab Film Festival
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This program is part of the 23rd Arab Film Festival - In San Francisco and Oakland October 11th through the 20th: arabfilmfestival.org
Renowned Egyptian director Atef Salem's 1959 film noir-esque murder mystery, starring a dashing 27-year-old Omar Sharif - just 3 years before his international breakthrough via Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 - Encounter With The Unknown follows the story of Magdy, played by Sharif, as he attempts to unravel a tangled web of betrayal and greed that led to the murder of his brother, Amin (Kamal Hussain), upon returning to Cairo from a business trip in Germany.
A rollercoaster ride of intrigue, corruption, people getting slapped in the face, and several scenes with a shirtless Sharif - Encounter With The Unknown is Atef Salem's lesser known Sharif-collaboration vis-à-vis fan favorite Struggle On The Nile, which likewise premiered in 1959, yet all the same spotlights the vibrant essence of Egypt's Golden Age of Cinema, just on the cusp of the 1960s - a time when modern Egyptian identity was probed, re-defined, and questioned like never before amidst the social battleground of Gamal Abdel Nasser's strides towards secularization. --ALEXANDER FARROW
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Renowned Egyptian director Atef Salem's 1959 film noir-esque murder mystery, starring a dashing 27-year-old Omar Sharif - just 3 years before his international breakthrough via Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 - Encounter With The Unknown follows the story of Magdy, played by Sharif, as he attempts to unravel a tangled web of betrayal and greed that led to the murder of his brother, Amin (Kamal Hussain), upon returning to Cairo from a business trip in Germany.
A rollercoaster ride of intrigue, corruption, people getting slapped in the face, and several scenes with a shirtless Sharif - Encounter With The Unknown is Atef Salem's lesser known Sharif-collaboration vis-à-vis fan favorite Struggle On The Nile, which likewise premiered in 1959, yet all the same spotlights the vibrant essence of Egypt's Golden Age of Cinema, just on the cusp of the 1960s - a time when modern Egyptian identity was probed, re-defined, and questioned like never before amidst the social battleground of Gamal Abdel Nasser's strides towards secularization. --ALEXANDER FARROW
This program is part of the 23rd Arab Film Festival - In San Francisco and Oakland October 11th through the 20th: arabfilmfestival.org
Renowned Egyptian director Atef Salem's 1959 film noir-esque murder mystery, starring a dashing 27-year-old Omar Sharif - just 3 years before his international breakthrough via Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 - Encounter With The Unknown follows the story of Magdy, played by Sharif, as he attempts to unravel a tangled web of betrayal and greed that led to the murder of his brother, Amin (Kamal Hussain), upon returning to Cairo from a business trip in Germany.
A rollercoaster ride of intrigue, corruption, people getting slapped in the face, and several scenes with a shirtless Sharif - Encounter With The Unknown is Atef Salem's lesser known Sharif-collaboration vis-à-vis fan favorite Struggle On The Nile, which likewise premiered in 1959, yet all the same spotlights the vibrant essence of Egypt's Golden Age of Cinema, just on the cusp of the 1960s - a time when modern Egyptian identity was probed, re-defined, and questioned like never before amidst the social battleground of Gamal Abdel Nasser's strides towards secularization. --ALEXANDER FARROW
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Renowned Egyptian director Atef Salem's 1959 film noir-esque murder mystery, starring a dashing 27-year-old Omar Sharif - just 3 years before his international breakthrough via Lawrence of Arabia in 1962 - Encounter With The Unknown follows the story of Magdy, played by Sharif, as he attempts to unravel a tangled web of betrayal and greed that led to the murder of his brother, Amin (Kamal Hussain), upon returning to Cairo from a business trip in Germany.
A rollercoaster ride of intrigue, corruption, people getting slapped in the face, and several scenes with a shirtless Sharif - Encounter With The Unknown is Atef Salem's lesser known Sharif-collaboration vis-à-vis fan favorite Struggle On The Nile, which likewise premiered in 1959, yet all the same spotlights the vibrant essence of Egypt's Golden Age of Cinema, just on the cusp of the 1960s - a time when modern Egyptian identity was probed, re-defined, and questioned like never before amidst the social battleground of Gamal Abdel Nasser's strides towards secularization. --ALEXANDER FARROW
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