Cairo station is a steamy noir masterpiece of repressed sexuality, madness and violence set in the citys central train depot, cairo station earned the youssef chahine international recognition and acclaim when it was nominated for the golden bear at the berlin film festival in 1958. Go down the stairs and grab a battle rifle br from the weapons locker on the wall. It can appeal to anyone in the world and is as good as any great work of any country. Director youssef chahine studied film in pasadena, and in cairo station 1958, it is obvious that he brought a chunk of hollywood back to egypt with him. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing cairo station near you. Listen to the battle report on the malta, then run down the stairs, and take cover behind the steel barrier. Uk 14 june 2002 rerelease finland 21 october 2007 tv premiere japan 19 october 2008 tokyo international film festival taiwan 3 august 2012 rerelease sweden july 20 tv premiere. With george sanders, richard johnson, faten hamamah, john meillon. I have come here to seek a new beginning esteri i have come here to seek a new beginning di barack obama. Find out everything empire knows about cairo station. Please activate cookies in order to turn autoplay off. Le choc du futur marc collin beats brian welsharabic cinema abou leila, nouras dream, 143 sahara street. Cairo station 1958 youssef chahine, farid shawqi, hend rostom, crime, drama march 21, 2018 kinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central cairo train station, is obsessed by hannouma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. This particular film takes place over the course of a day, and outlines the story of qinawi played by chahine a poor, somewhat pathetic and sexually repressed newspaper vendor in the heart of cairo, cairo station train station.
Cairo a speeding railcar crashed into a barrier at cairos main train station, causing its fuel tank to explode and triggering a huge fire that left at. Apr 01, 2020 kinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central cairo train station, is obsessed by hannouma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. In this beautiful classic film directed by youssef chahine, cairo s main railroad station is used to represent all of egyptian society a place brimming with sexuality, repression, madness and violence among societys most marginalized. The cairo film connection cfc team has announced the selection of film projects that will take part in its sixth edition, held within the 41st edition of cairo international film festival ciff. The film stars george sanders, richard johnson, faten hamama, john meillon, ahmed mazhar, eric pohlmann and the directors father walter rilla. While hannuma rejects qinawi, his obsession for her grows more and more. It is in the same battle cluster as athens station and malta station. Quinawi develops an obsessive fixation on the beautiful hanuma rostom, a saucy beauty who sells cold drinks at the station. A masterpiece made in 1958 depicting the lower depths of egyptian society making their living at cairo s version of grand central station. Oxford university press, 1962, jacques berque, egypt. Cairo film connection announces its film project egypt today.
This paper discusses ten public parns and gardens in cairo founded in the 19th and 20th centuries, and. It was entered into the 8th berlin international film festival. Go down the stairs to join three marines, sergeant johnson, and a navy captain with a pistol. One hot day in the wake of the suez crisis, hotter by the minute. Cairo declaration is a 2015 chinese 2d historical film directed by wen deguang and hu minggang and written by liu xing. The movie grabs felliniesque characters especially that sexy femme and combines them in a joyous and iconic central location. The film which put egyptian writerdirector chahine on the international map plays like a great overlooked masterpiece of italian neorealism. Cairo station was the 11th film directed by youssef chahine. He goes mad and enraged in pursuit of hanouma hind rostom who is a drink. Cairo station 1958 the struggles against sexual repression and social oppression. In the bustling cairo train station, a host of workers make their meager livings, many only one step up from homelessness. The film focuses mainly on qinawi, a paper boy with a limp who is mocked and abused by everyone. And having the opportunity to watch one made by an acclaimed egyptian filmmaker, was nothing less than a. Nov 11, 2014 cario station is just the tutorial level to get a hang of the basics.
He enlists the help of willy, ali, nicodemos, kerim and kuchuk to. He was still only 32 and he also played the central character in the film. The film was released on august 21, 1963, by metrogoldwynmayer. The official submission of egypt for the best foreign language film category of the 31st academy awards in 1959, cairo station also called the iron gate asserts itself to be a fantastic thriller directed by youssef chahine. Apart from the fine marriage of genre styles, director youssef chahine excels at weaving the palette for his neorealist setting. He is there to proceed with his plan to steal the jewelry from the king tutankhamen exhibit at the national gallery. Egypt train crash, fire at central cairo station kills 25. Jul 11, 2014 11 vintage images that will make you wish you lived in cairo in the 1960s. Cairo station 1958 changes the movie database tmdb. It is clearly the best known english name of the film. With much media fanfare the minister was quoted as saying he was proud of all the effort that went into the project and that cairo can now boast of a train station that rivals. John117 and unsc marines fight against boarding covenant troops culminating in a battle over a sangheiliguarded bomb intended to destroy the station. The grotto was home for romantic movies and dating in the 20th century movie. It is directed by youssef chahine who is perhaps their most famous director partly of course because of this film which is simply wonderful taking neorealism smack into the hard bitten center of.
The classic film cairo station 1958 was made at ramses station. Neue deutsche wochenschau 3101956 films at the german. Cairo station 1958 youssef chahine had been directing movies for eight years when cairo station reached the screen in 1958. It was commanded by fleet admiral sir terrence hood. Cairo station 1962 directed by youssef chahine my rating. A masterpiece made in 1958 depicting the lower depths of egyptian society making their living at cairos version of grand central station. The film stars hu jun, cecilia han, ma xiaowei, and tang guoqiang.
One such person is quinawi chahine, a physically handicapped peddler who scrapes by selling newspapers. And having the opportunity to watch one made by an acclaimed egyptian filmmaker, was nothing less than a bonus. Named after the egyptian city of cairo, it is in the same battle cluster as athens and malta stations and seems to be mainly guarding the area above the mediterranean. A man called major is in cairo after being released from a german prison. Chahine directed and stars as a crippled newspaper vender who becomes obsessed with rostoms drink seller. Cairo station, hull classification symbol owp142, is an orbital defense platform in geosynchronous orbit about 35,900 kilometers above earth.
Outside of the station used to be the statue of ramses ii that was relocated to the area of giza on 25 august 2006, in preparation for its eventual installation in the grand egyptian museum. To the ministry of agriculture to be a station for acclimatization and. Along with a textbased biography and filmography, this dvd presentation of cairo station also arrives with youssef chahines short film cairo as seen by chahine 23. Kinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central cairo train station, is obsessed by hannouma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. We see a community comprised of luggage carriers and softdrink vendors living in abandoned train cars. Youssef chahines 1896 film alyoum alsadis the sixth day, dramatized this. Renaissance nile city, shobra cairo 360 guide to cairo, egypt. Blending elements of neorealism a grim, grubby evocation of workingclass life and socioeconomic struggle with deepdish noirmelodrama lust, jealousy, madness, and murder, cairo station represented something startlingly new in arab cinema. I visited cairo during thanksgiving 1998 and came across this theater when we were sight seeing in the streets. You may exchange or request a refund for your entire order, less the convenience fee, through fandango up until the posted showtime. Ethans rating of the film cairo station ethan this is an exciting and fast paced film that perfectly captures the atmosphere of this train station as its own universe with an assortment of eccentric characters that are constantly on the brink of destroying one another in between comic jabs. Cairo cinema guide to movies, film, showing times in egypt.
Cairo station 1958 is a melodrama film directed by youssef chahine. International fame came to egyptian actors of the era, such as omar sharif and his wife faten hamama. Youll have to complete your refund and exchange before the posted showtime indicated on your ticket. The new look of cairo train station egypt independent. House on haunted hill full movie vincent price carol ohmart tcc ai color duration. A few weeks ago, egypts transport minister opened the new cairo train station, also known as ramses station or bab alhadid station, following renovations that lasted for several years and which cost le170 million. Egyptian cinema produced acclaimed films, such as cairo station 1958, a beginning and an end1960, and chased by dogs 1962.
Youssef chahine vigorously sketches the cairo station vortex with steam, whistles and swarming vendors and passengers, and plays the halfvulnerable, halfpsychotic wretch at its center like a limping curt bois. Jun 08, 2014 before going into the shotbyshot analysis, it is important we take a look at the movie as a whole. Shockingly, this film is a melodrama, complete with a dramatic, fifties style musical score. Berlin international film festival west germany 16 january 1962. At least 25 dead in cairo railway station fire after trains fuel tank explodes. The station by sara ishaq, leila and i by maggie morgan, a house for expats by naji ismail, shameem by karim rahbani and under construction by. The left marquee displayed the american film, turbulence, with arabic subtitles. The film was selected as the egyptian entry for the best foreign language film at the 31st academy awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Cairo station is the third campaign level of halo 2, taking place in earths orbit on the cairo station. Generously provided by arab film distribution saturday. While she treats kinawi in a sympathetic way and jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with abu sri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize. The film is about qinawi youssef chahine, a mentally and physically handicapped newspaper seller of cairo station who is sexually obsessed with women. Cairo, and the main railway station of bab alhadid. Qinawi is a young man who is madly obsessed with hannuma, but she is already engaged to man named abu siri.
Cairo station 1962 is a film about deception of people. Studio misr was founded in the late 1930s and launched the careers of many prominent egyptian actors that went on to international acclaim. In another domain, on september 28, the first atomic power station. Cairo is a 1963 american crime film directed by wolf rilla and written by joan lacour scott. In this beautiful classic film from legendary director youssef chahine, cairos main railroad station is used to represent all of egyptian society. Cairo station, also called the iron gate is a 1958 egyptian drama film directed by youssef chahine. Cairo illuminated station, alyavum alsadis the sixth day, 1986 and several of his by its people was banned in egypt for representing student other films.
One of the decisive turning points in chahines enduring career, cairo station marked a new visual daring and embrace of ambitious and controversial subject matter, an attempt to rejuvenate formuladriven mainstream egyptian cinema by judiciously experimenting with formal and thematic elements from both italian neorealism and german. You can get this achievement on any difficulty setting. Pdf almuhajir lemigre the emigrant youssef chahine. Find telephone numbers and addresses for cairo cinemas. Combining italian neorealism, egyptian romanticism and overheated film noir, cairo station was unlike anything anyone had seen on movie screens before. Cairo station produced in 1958 is considered one of the best if not the best artistic film from that period. The egyptian director youssef chahine stars in his teeming, sharpeyed populist drama, from 1958, which blends a warmhearted view of a wide array of characters and audacious social. The film was scheduled to be released on september 3, 2015. I believe cairo station marks my very first experience in watching an egyptian movie those television soap operas over the rtm channels when i was younger, dont exactly count. Well refund your credit card or we can credit your fandango account to use for another movie. Youll begin this mission as master chief whos being scolded for not. Frankenstein meets the spacemonster 1965 horror, scifi full length film duration. Convenient account management for registered users. Nicolas altmayer, who produced the film along with his brother eric.
Cairo station 1958 youssef chahine, farid shawqi, hend. Contagion, capital, and the making of british colonial cairo, 1882. During that time he laid the groundwork for the most illustrious career in egyptian cinema and arab cinema, and one of the greatest in world cinema of the past seventyfive years. Tcc timeless classics now in color recommended for you. If youre a commuter with data restrictions, these tv shows and movies can be downloaded for offline viewing on stan. All takes place in a station with a frustrated paper boy, living his life vicariously through pin ups photographs, the central character.
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