About
Type:
Color
Duration:
133 minutes
Production year:
1979
Screenplay
Screenplay
Dialogue
Dialogue
Producer
Director
Cast
Trivia (20)
At the beginning of the film it says: "The characters and events of the film are not a carbon copy of their historical reality, but a personal vision.".
Yehia's family lives above a cabaret.
Soriel intentionally uses a Bible verse from the words of Jesus Christ, saying: "Jerusalem, killer of the innocent and the prophets," while the original verse is: "O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, killer of the prophets and stoner of those sent to her.".
Yehia performs part of Shakespeare's Hamlet.
Tommy, played by the English actor Jerry Sendquest, says: "Don't worry, I am not the dying type." Unfortunately, the actor himself did actually commit suicide years later, in his thirties, and he also dies in the film.
It is considered one of the first films in Egyptian cinema to address homosexuality, through the relationship between Tommy and Adel. 7Adouta Masreya also showed a scene in Youssef Chahine's biography with "Andrew" the driver that suggests the same subject. This later recurred with the character of the "coffin maker", played by Ahmed Bedir, in Al-Mohager.
In the scene where A Detained Young Man's Father is arrested, we notice a poster for Laila, starring Laila Mourad, at "Cinema Cosmo.".
Summer vacation: June 30, 1942.
Adel's car number: 178.
Tommy is from the Middlesex Regiment (Middlesex).
Tommy's hometown: Dover in Britain (Dover).
In the casting office we see a poster for the film "Queen Christina" (1933).
Goofs (4)
Some words do not match the mouth movements.
Soriel quotes a verse from the Bible attributed to Jesus Christ, saying, "Jerusalem, killer of the innocent and the prophets," even though he is Jewish and is not supposed to believe in Jesus Christ or his words.
When Tommy's gravestone is shown, there are two gravestones beside it, but in a later shot there is a plant between two of those gravestones that was not there in the earlier shot.
When Al-Khawaga Diab looks toward the window, the following front-facing shot shows that he was not actually moving toward the window and then looking at it.
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