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Al-Ekhteyar film poster ★ 7.5

Al-Ekhteyar

فيلم الاختيار
119 minutes
Trivia (16)
  The family dog's name: Billy.
  The characters "Qenawi" and "Hanuma" from Bab Al-7Adid are mentioned.
  The Minister's Aide asks The Writer about the characters "Qenawi" and "Hanuma" from Bab Al-7Adid, which indicates that he is playing one side of Youssef Chahine's personality, or that it is simply meant to bring reality into fiction.
  Sayed and Mahmoud were born on January 28 (Youssef Chahine was born on January 25).
  Farag was also born in January.
  Sayed and Mahmoud's father worked as a lawyer's clerk, and their mother's name was "Khadija Salama.".
  One of the actress's stage works: "The Little Eagle.".
  The name of Youssef Wahby's artwork: "The Confession Chair.".
  The number of the taxi Sayed took after talking with Youssef Wahby is: 7362 - Cairo taxi.
  Some words do not match the lip movements.
  Mahmoud uses a saying by Voltaire and explains it: "I, who love you, owe you everything.".
  Sayed and Sherifa have been married for five years and have a son.
  Sayed uses a line from Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.".
  The play Sayed is writing is called The Sailor.
  A Bible verse is mentioned in Jesus Christ's words to Peter: "You will deny me when the rooster crows" ("The rooster will not crow before you deny me").
  Sayed's car number: 2986.
Goofs (13)
 When the camera moves closer beside a chair in The Minister's Secretary's office, the camera's shadow can be seen moving.
 Under the headline "Body Found in Gabal al-Dirasa," we read a newspaper article whose opening is correct and matches the subject, but when the smaller text continues, it turns out to be part of another newspaper article about planes, the airport, and so on.
 When Sayed opens the soda bottle for Sherifa, bubbles are visible before he opens it with his mouth, showing that it had already been opened before he opened it that way.
 When the camera pulls back in the police office during Sayed's conversation with The Investigator, the camera's shadow can be seen moving with it over the recording machines.
 Before the investigator asks Sayed to go to Mahmoud's house, he raises one hand, but in the next side shot his hands are clasped together.
 When the camera moves closer to the poster for "Confession Chair," its shadow is visible.
Posters (3)