Alexandria Again and Forever

Movie

Drama

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

Date: 12/04/1989

Rating: 4.7

Cast: Youssef Chahine, Yousra, Hussein Fahmy, Amr Abdel Gelil, Hesham Selim, Tahiya Cariocca, Huda Sultan, Seif Abdelrahman, Abla Kamel, Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab, Mohamed Henedi, Salah Zulfikar, Ragaa Hussein, Hassan El-Adl, Ahmed ElHariri, Tawfiq Saleh, Mohammed Tawfik, Hossam ElDein Mostafa, Ali Badrakhan, Ahmed Hegazi, Khaled Hamza, Ibrahim Hassanein, Mohga Abdel Rahman, Osama Taha, Yasser Maher, Bahaa Barwat, Tarek Kamel, Isabelle Kamal, Tamer Ashraf, Nadia Abbas, Eyad Abdel Meguid, Saman Achraf, Atef Awad, Mohamed Gebril, Doy Khayal, Mohamed Mostafa, Sameh Saber, Doy Solh, Mina Thabet, Ezzat ElMashad, Maher Selim, Menha Batraoui, Tawfiq Al Kurdi, Farouq Al Fishawy, Ahmed Al Fishawy, Mohamed Fadel, Muneer Makram

Youssef Chahine