| DIRECTOR: |
Ossama Fawzi |
| SCREENPLAY: |
Mostafa Zekry |
| CINEMATOGRAPHER: |
Tarek El Telmessany |
| EDITION: |
Ahmed Metwalli |
| MUSIC: |
Peppino D´Agostino |
| PRODUCER: |
Hani Guirgis |
| FESTIVALS: |
Sochi (Rússia) |
| CAST: |
Salwa Khattab, Mahmoud
Hemeida, Abdallah, Mahmoud, Gamil Rateb, Hassan Hosni |
| PRODUCTION: |
G.F. Films
40 Talaat Harb St. - Cairo
Tel: 202 767430
Fax: 202 575-6840 |
| WORLD SALES: |
Artists Union Company
40 Talaat Harb St. - Cairo
Tel: 202 575-6840
Fax: 202 346-5677 |
| ORIGINAL TITLE: |
Afarit el Asphalt |
| |
Col., 105 min., 1997 |
|
|
Born in 1961 in Cairo, Egypt, he earned his degrees in cinema by the High Cinema
Institute in 1984. He worked as assistant for various Egyptian directors such as Hussein
Kamal, Ashraf Fahmy, and Niazi Mostafa.
In 1985, he established his own company and produced The
Dwarfs are Coming, directed by Sherif Arafa. Between 1989 and 1990, he again worked as
assistant in the films Violets are Blue, by Radwan El Kashef, and Love in the
Refrigerator, by Said Hammed. In 1995, he started filming The Asphalt Kings,
his first feature. |
|
An amusing
story of adultery fraught with confusion, where a taxi driver, Sayed, has an affair with
his neighbor, the barber's wife. He later discovers that his sister is dating Ringo who
also works as a taxi driver. At the same time, Abdallah, Sayed's father, and Zahia,
Ringo's mother, are the main characters in a torrid story of love and sex. To augment the
confusion, Tafida, Sayed's mother and Mohammed, the barber who is Batta's husband, are
lovers.