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1969 drama film by Youssef Chahine

The Land
Directed by	Youssef Chahine
Written by	Abd al-Rahman Sharqawi Hassan Fuad
Starring	Mahmoud El-Meliguy Yehia Chahine Ezzat El Alaili Hamdy Ahmed
Cinematography	Abdelhalim Nasr
Edited by	Rashida Abdel Salam
Music by	Ali Ismail
Release date	1969 (1969)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Egypt
Language	Egyptian Arabic

The Land (Arabic: الأرض, translit. al-ʿarḍ) is a 1969 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, based on a popular novel by Abd al-Rahman Sharqawi. The film narrates the conflict between Egyptian peasants and their landlord in the 1930s, and explores the complex relation between individual interests and collective responses to oppression. It was entered into the 1970 Cannes Film Festival.

Cast

Mahmoud El-Meliguy as Mohamed Abu Swelam
Yehia Chahine as Hassuna
Ezzat El Alaili as Abd El-Hadi
Hamdy Ahmed as Mohammad Effendi
Tewfik El Dekn as Khedr
Salah El-Saadany as Elwani
Ali El Scherif as Diab
Nagwa Ibrahim as Wassifa

References

"Festival de Cannes: The Land". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 10 April 2009.

External links

The Land at IMDb

v t e Films directed by Youssef Chahine
Son of the Nile (1951) The Blazing Sun (1954) Struggle in the Pier (1956) Cairo Station (1958) Jamila, the Algerian (1958) Forever Yours (1959) Saladin the Victorious (1963) Dawn of a New Day (1965) The Nile and the Life (1968) The Land (1969) The Choice (1970) Those People of the Nile (1972) The Return of the Prodigal Son (1976) Alexandria... Why? (1979) An Egyptian Story (1982) Adieu Bonaparte (1985) Alexandria Again and Forever (1989) The Emigrant (1994) Lumière and Company (1995) Destiny (1997) The Other (1999) 11′09″01 September 11 (2002) Alexandria... New York (2004) To Each His Own Cinema (2007) Chaos, This Is (2007)

Films directed by Youssef Chahine

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