7Adouta Masreya
125 minutes
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Youssef Chahine appears as himself at the beginning of the film, as a director.
At the beginning of the film, Yehia mentions Madame Mohsena Tawfiq in the extras scene, which is most likely the final scene in Al-3Osfoor.
Yehia says a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "Is this how things end?! Not two months dead! No, not even two months!".
Yehia and Andrew the driver exchange a line from Hamlet: "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.".
Some have interpreted the scene between Yehia and Andrew the driver as having a homosexual aspect, similar to Adel's relationship with the foreigner "Tommy" in Eskenderya.. Leh?, despite the difference in how explicit the situations are. The idea was later presented again through the character of the "coffin maker," played by Ahmed Bedir, in Al-Mohager.
Yehia's home phone number in Cairo: 816196.
Yehia's Mother gave birth when she was 18.
Yehia's Sister was married off when she was 18.
Yehia's Mother married at 16, to a husband 30 years older than her.
Archival footage from the Cannes Film Festival, featuring several international artists, around the time Ibn Al-Niel was entered in the festival in the early 1950s.
Mahdy says Hamlet's line, "There are more things in heaven and earth," and adds that they blow the mind.
Yehia quotes Hamlet: "For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contempt, the pangs of rejected love, the law's delay, and the insolence of office, when he himself might make his quietus with a bare bodkin... were it not for the dread of something after death!".
The film ends with a title card reading "The Beginning" instead of "The End.".
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