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A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
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- 1 nomination
Farid Shawqi
- Abu Siri
- (as Farid Chawki)
Hassan el Baroudi
- Madbouli
- (as H. el Baroudy)
Abdulaziz Khalil
- Abu Gaber
- (as Abdel Aziz Khalil)
Naima Wasfy
- Hallawatim
- (as Naima Wasfi)
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- TriviaOfficial submission of Egypt for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 31st Academy Awards in 1959.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Cam��ra arabe (1987)
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The station takes the spotlight!
Egypt's official entry for 'Best Foreign Language Film' at the 31st Academy awards, Cairo Station is director Youssef Chahine's paean to the city he was born in and which influenced much of his later work. Reviled in Egypt by critics and moviegoers alike on its release, the film is now considered among the finest works of its kind. With touches of Hitchcock and Powell, the film tells the story of a crippled news vendor (played by Chahine himself) who is besotted with a beautiful and capricious seller of cold drinks (Hind Rustom). This unhealthy obsession, bordering on the homicidal, leads to a tragic denouement.
This misplaced love story, if it can be called that, is played out against the backdrop of the main train station at Cairo. Indeed, more than the players, the station is the focal point of interest of the movie. A cesspool of unceasing human activity, with its fights, petty intrigues, welcomes and tear-stained farewells, the station is the throbbing heart of this vast metropolis which combines comedy and tragedy in equal measure in the stories its citizens live to narrate.
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- May 28, 2020
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- Cairo Station
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- Runtime1 hour 17 minutes
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- 1.66 : 1
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