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  • TITLE: CAIRO STATION
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  • DIRECTOR: Chahine, Youssef
  • LENGTH: 86 min.
  • COLOR_B&W_TINTED: B&W
  • RELEASE_DATE: 1958
  • GENRE_MAIN: Drama
  • GENRE_SECOND: Tragedy
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  • COUNTRY_OF_ORIGIN: Egypt
  • LANGUAGE: Arabic
  • SUBTITLES_DUB: English Subtitles
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  • RIGHTS_TV: TV
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  • SYNOPSIS: In this beautiful classic film, Cairo's main railroad station is used to represent all of Egyptian society. We see a community comprised of luggage carriers and soft-drink vendors living in abandoned train cars. A crippled newspaper dealer, Kinawi (Chahine himself), falls in love with the beautiful but indifferent Hanuma, a lemonade seller who only has eyes for the handsome Abu Sri'. Swept away by his obsessive desire, Kinawi kidnaps the object of his passion, with terrible consequences. Chahine received international recognition when this masterpiece of sexuality, repression, madness and violence among society's marginalized played at the Berlin Film Festival. "A jewel of a film." Samir Hachem, Hollywood Reporter

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