The Yacoubian Building (2006)
Omaret yakobean (original title)

Cast

Credited cast:
	Adel Imam	...	Zaki El Dessouki
	Nour El-Sherif	...	Mohammad Azzam
	Youssra	...	Christine
	Essad Youniss	...	Dawlat El Dessouky (as Issad Younis)
	Ahmed Bedir	...	Malaak (as Ahmed Bedeir)
	Hend Sabri	...	Bothayna (as Hind Sabry)
	Khaled El Sawy	...	Hatem Rachid
	Khaled Saleh	...	Kamal El Fouly
	Ahmed Rateb	...	Fanous
	Somaya El Khashab	...	Soad
	Bassem Samra	...	Abd Raboh
	Mohamed Imam	...	Taha El Shazly
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
	Tamer Abdulmun'em
	Youseff Daoud	...	Fekry Abdel Shaheed
	Mohamed El Dafrawy

Storyline

Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts. European values, both refined and worldly, provide a subtext. Written by <jhailey@hotmail.com>  

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