Film trivia - page 80

The entire story is adapted from the American film Stranger than Fiction (2006), including many scenes and lines of dialogue.

Samia is in room 214 at the hospital.

Magdy is 29 years old.

Magdy is a Gemini.

Samia's salary: 350 lira a month.

At the start of the film it says: "A man and a woman brought together by exile... and drawn closer by loneliness... He wanted her to surrender to him, for love in his eyes was desire... She wanted him to love her first, for love in her eyes was giving".

After Medhat leaves the job interview, we hear the secretary call the next job applicant, "Ghattas Qelta," who is the film's production manager.

Fayza watches the final scene of Al-Ard at the cinema.

Date of El-Sharnoubi Bey's newspaper notice thanking his clients: September 11, 1982.

Salah spent two years in prison.

Shamshoun says of Salah that he is like his son, even though the actual age difference between the two actors who played the roles is only about seven years.

Salah is on the third floor of the prison, cell 5.