The Land (1969 film)

The Land
Directed by	Youssef Chahine
Written by	Abderrahman Charkawi Hassan Fuad
Starring	Hamdy Ahmed
Cinematography	Abdelhalim Nasr
Edited by	Rashida Abdel Salam
Release dates	1969 (1969)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Egypt
Language	Arabic

The Land (Arabic: الأرض‎, translit. Al-ard) is a 1969 Egyptian drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, based on a popular novel by Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi. The film narrates the conflict between peasants and their landlord in rural Egypt 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.^[1]

Cast

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

References

↑ "Festival de Cannes: The Land". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 2009-04-10.

External links

The Land at the Internet Movie Database

Films directed by Youssef Chahine

Ibn el Nil (1951)
Sira` Fi al-Wadi (1954)
Cairo Station (1958)
Forever Yours (1959)
Salladin the Victorious (1963)
The Land (1969)
Alexandria... Why? (1979)
An Egyptian Story (1982)
Adieu Bonaparte (1985)
Al-Mohager (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)
Le Chaos (2007)

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