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Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.Meditations on corruption, fundamentalism, prostitution, homosexuality, and drugs in central Cairo.
- Awards
- 9 wins & 5 nominations
Essad Youniss
- Dawlat El Dessouky
- (as Issad Younis)
Ahmad Bedair
- Malaak
- (as Ahmed Bedeir)
Hind Sabri
- Bothayna
- (as Hind Sabry)
Khaled El-Sawi
- Hatem Rachid
- (as Khaled El Sawy)
Basem Samrah
- Abd Raboh
- (as Bassem Samra)
Mohamed Emam
- Taha El Shazly
- (as Mohamed Imam)
Youssef Dawood
- Fekry Abdel Shaheed
- (as Youseff Daoud)
Talaat Zakaria
- Bar Owner
- (as Talat Zakariyya)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
- Production, box office & more at IMDbPro
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Did you know
- TriviaOfficial submission of Egypt for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 79th Academy Awards in 2007.
- GoofsWhen Hatem is drinking while remembering his youth near the end of the film, he finishes his drink. Seconds later, he finishes it again.
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Culture shock
What I like most about this movie is that it opens a window into an unknown world for me, that of relations between men an women in modern Egypt, and it does so in a style that is at the same time sumptuous an unfamiliar. People do things you wouldn't expect, despite the slightly heavy-handed handling of emotions. There are areas where the movie is not perfect: it is so highly pessimistic and denounces the greed and selfishness of Egyptian men with so much vigor that it appears somewhat simplistic. It does tend to ramble a bit. But the power and the humor of the movie (it is quite funny, despite being tragic) transcends all that and makes those minor faults. I understand the director is very young, so he will have ample time to overcome and transcend these youthful imperfections. I didn't like Slumdog Millionaire because it told me everything about India that I already knew: it feels like a package tour where you are shown the sites you expect to see, and are whisked from one location to another. For a western viewer, Omaret yakobean is like a journey where you land at the airport and are immediately carried away by the atmosphere, the culture shock, the bustling streets, the misunderstandings, from which you emerge with challenged assumptions and a wider view of the world.
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- May 12, 2009
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- Also known as
- Yacoubians hus
- Filming locations
- Alexandria, Egypt(beach front)
- Production company
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- Budget
- EGP 18,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross worldwide
- $2,414,837
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