Film trivia - page 79
Dhliz holds all sorts of details about hundreds of films, and more are added all the time. You can read through them here:
From 7Adeed (حديد)
The final credits state: "The Egyptian Cinema Professions Syndicate refused to place my name as director of this work, and because cinema is a document that transcends the present and all its conflicts, we decided to respect and document the decision. Muhammad Al-Sobky".
The film ends with a title card reading "The Beginning" instead of "The End.".
Mahdy says Hamlet's line, "There are more things in heaven and earth," and adds that they blow the mind.
Archival footage from the Cannes Film Festival, featuring several international artists, around the time Ibn Al-Niel was entered in the festival in the early 1950s.
Yehia’s Mother married at 16, to a husband 30 years older than her.
Yehia’s Sister was married off when she was 18.
Yehia’s Mother gave birth when she was 18.
Yehia's home phone number in Cairo: 816196.
Yehia and Andrew the driver exchange a line from Hamlet: "I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.".
At the beginning of the film, Yehia mentions Madame Mohsena Tawfiq in the extras scene, which is most likely the final scene in Al-3Osfoor.
Youssef Chahine appears as himself at the beginning of the film, as a director.
The scene where Dr. Olwi Adel advises Samy to reject the manager's daughter's project and loses his temper with her, after which she later becomes interested in him, follows the same events as Hitch (2005).
