One day, the Nile

One day, the Nile [1] (Egyptian Arabic: الناس والنيل French: Un jour, le Nil translit: Al Nass Wal Nil or Al Nas wal Nil) is a 1972 Egyptian film directed by Youssef Chahine. The film stars Salah Zulfikar and Soad Hosny.[2][3][4][5]

One day, the Nile
Film poster
الناس والنيل
Directed byYoussef Chahine
Written byNikolai Ekk
Screenplay byHassan Fouad
StarringSalah Zulfikar
Soad Hosny
CinematographyShlenkov
Peter Chefko
Edited byRachida Abdel Salam
Music byAram Khachaturian
Production
company
Cairo Cinema • Mos-film
Distributed byGeneral Egyptian Corporation for Cinema Production
Release date
  • 1972 (1972)
CountryEgypt
LanguageEgyptian Arabic

Plot

Set during the diversion of the Nile current in 1964 during the building of the Aswan Dam. The foreground of the film shows Yehia coming out of a brothel. Later, we will understand that Yehia is not a real worker but a committed writer, tired by years of activism. Because of this past and this fatigue, the young girl from a good family with whom he falls in love, and who loves him, finally leaves him. Because she doesn't want a worn-out man. But Yehia is focused on covering the secrets of the huge project. And the rest of personalities begin to remember the past, through the story of an honest doctor who joins the dam to serve its staff, Nadia who refuses to move to Aswan with her husband Amin and Russian engineer Alex whose wife cannot tolerate life in Egypt.[6][7][8][9][10]

Cast

Production

The film was joint Egyptian-Soviet production as a sign of friendship between the two states at the time.

Youssef Chahine has diverted diplomatic material into poetic and lyrical material. And throughout the film, this important question: where does this energy come from? "We will change the course of history as we have changed the course of the world's greatest river." That kind of feeling always makes a movie. And it is visible that Chahine believed in his country's capabilities to build this huge project, the High Dam..[11]

References
  1. Al-nass wal Nil (1972) - IMDb, 17 January 1972, retrieved 2021-08-09
  2. Movie - Alnaas walnayl - 1972 Cast، Video، Trailer، photos، Reviews، Showtimes Check |url= value (help), retrieved 2021-08-09
  3. NotesonFilm1 (2020-07-13). "The Youssef Chahine PodcastNo. 9, A return to a later version of Un jour, le nil: People of the Nile (1972)". First Impressions. Retrieved 2021-08-11.
  4. Khouri, Malek (2010). The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-416-354-8.
  5. "Youssef Chahine - Cinémathèque française". cinema.encyclopedie.personnalites.bifi.fr. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  6. Those People of the Nile (1972), retrieved 2021-08-09
  7. "Inspired by the River: A Diverse Selection of Films Featuring the Nile | Egyptian Streets". 2019-08-06. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  8. AlloCine, Un Jour, le Nil (in French), retrieved 2021-08-16
  9. NotesonFilm1 (2020-07-13). "The Youssef Chahine PodcastNo. 9, A return to a later version of Un jour, le nil: People of the Nile (1972)". First Impressions. Retrieved 2021-08-16.
  10. Those People of the Nile (1972), retrieved 2021-08-28
  11. Mikhail, Alan (2013-01-10). Water on Sand: Environmental Histories of the Middle East and North Africa. OUP USA. ISBN 978-0-19-976866-0.


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