Al-Karnak
140 minutes
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Type:
Color
Duration:
140 minutes
Production year:
1975
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Trivia (13)
The radio communiqué: Communiqué No. 7 on October 6, 1973.
The book Explanation of the Charter costs two pounds.
The café where the heroes gather is called Karnak Café.
The heroes are studying at the Faculty of Medicine.
A kilo of rice costs five piasters.
Ismail's number in the detention camp: 17.
Ismail is 25 at the beginning of the film. He was a final-year Cairo medical student, and his address was 11 Daabas Alley, El-Husseiniya district, Cairo, Egypt.
The number of Zeinab's taxi after her first release: 50560.
Ismail reads the book The Egyptian National Movement by Shahdi Atiya El Shafei.
Helmy lives in house number 9.
An image from Al-Ahram newspaper is shown — issue 30826, year 97 — and the newspaper cost 15 milliemes at the time.
Mention of the Corrective Revolution carried out by President Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat (أ) on May 15, 1971.
Archival footage from Egypt's 1967 Naksa War and the October 1973 Victory War was used.
Goofs (8)
When Diab holds the drink container in the alley cafe and talks about life, we see him holding it close to his chest, but in the next shot from the other side the container is a little farther from his chest.
When Diab makes Hassab Allah get up from beside him in the cafe, we see a change in the position of Diab's right hand between the shot facing Diab and the next shot from behind him.
When Khaled Tawfiq Safwan holds the letter opener while interrogating Ismail, we notice in a later side shot that he is not holding the knife.
When Public Security Officer is about to leave Karnak Cafe, we notice the camera's shadow moving on Qoronfola's clothes from behind.
When the detainees are waiting for Khaled Tawfiq Safwan to come out of the bathroom, we notice One of Them--the one leaning against the wall--with his arm on his waist, but in the next shot from the opposite side, his arms are by his sides.
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