Film trivia - page 10
Dhliz holds all sorts of details about hundreds of films, and more are added all the time. You can read through them here:
Omar's car number: 1698.
The date of the message on Omar's mobile phone: June 21.
At the start of the end credits, it read: "Dedicated to the late figure of Egyptian and international cinema, the artist Omar Sharif.".
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
7Adouta Masreya shows how the censorship committee initially rejected the film when it was submitted.
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
Bahia is surprised that Sheikh Ahmed left the telephone with Johnny; he tells her that he asked him to take the telephone with him on his errand. Was this the first prophecy or dream of the mobile phone? :).
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
When Johnny sits at the café, we notice a poster behind him for Al-Naser Sala7 Al-Din, which is also by the film's same director, Youssef Chahine.
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
The film takes place about ten years after the British left Egypt.
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
One of the Prisoners says: "It's true what they said: they strain out a gnat and swallow a camel," a saying deliberately quoted from the Bible, from Jesus Christ's verse: "You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.".
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
Egypt's population is 30 million.
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
The date of the newspaper carrying the headline "Israel cries out: The Arabs want to throw us into the sea.." is June 4, 1967.
From Al-3Osfoor (العصفور)
The film was produced in 1972, but the censors banned its release because of the questions it raised at a difficult time, so its release was postponed until 1974.
