Eskenderya Kaman Wa Kaman
104 minutes
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Duration:
104 minutes
Production year:
1990
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Trivia (7)
In the credits: "And, for the first time, Amr Abdel-Galil.".
Mohsen Moheiey Al-Din said that Amr Abdel-Galil's role embodied his real-life personality, from Youssef Chahine's point of view as The Director saw it.
The director Yehia tries to make the story of "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare.
The award won by Eskenderya.. Leh? was the Berlin Festival's "Silver Bear" in 1979 (Special Jury Prize: Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize).
Muhammad Heneidy sings in the Alexander the Great procession number, but not in his own voice (voice-over), as does Taheyya Kariokka.
Some people watch a scene from Bab Al-7Adid beside the fountain, and the character "Qenawi" from the film is mentioned.
At the end of the film it says: "A salute to the struggle of the Egyptian artist for democracy - to the movement of the masses of artists.".
Goofs (3)
Yehia watches at Nadia's house the scene of "Qenawi" dancing at the train station in Bab Al-7Adid, but when the scene later fills the frame, we see him drinking from a bottle; that shot came before he started dancing, not after.
We see Taheya Kariokka singing the national anthem in a long shot while wearing glasses, but in the following close-up she is not wearing them.
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