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Cairo Station

Original title: Bab el hadid
  • 1958
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 17m
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7.5/10
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Cairo Station (1958)
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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.

  • Director
    • Youssef Chahine
  • Writers
    • Abdel Hai Adib
    • Mohamed Abu Youssef
  • Stars
    • Farid Shawqi
    • Hind Rustum
    • Youssef Chahine
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    5K
    YOUR RATING
    • Director
      • Youssef Chahine
    • Writers
      • Abdel Hai Adib
      • Mohamed Abu Youssef
    • Stars
      • Farid Shawqi
      • Hind Rustum
      • Youssef Chahine
    • 21User reviews
    • 37Critic reviews
  • See production, box office & company info
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    • Awards
      • 2 nominations

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    Youssef Chahine in Cairo Station (1958)
    Hind Rustum and Farid Shawqi in Cairo Station (1958)
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    Farid Shawqi
    Farid Shawqi
    • Abu Siri
    • (as Farid Chawki)
    Hind Rustum
    Hind Rustum
    • Hanuma
    Youssef Chahine
    Youssef Chahine
    • Qinawi
    Hassan el Baroudi
    • Madbouli
    • (as H. el Baroudy)
    Abdulaziz Khalil
    • Abu Gaber
    • (as Abdel Aziz Khalil)
    Naima Wasfy
    • Hallawatim
    • (as Naima Wasfi)
    Said Khalil
    Abdel Ghani Nagdi
    Loutfi El Hakim
    Abdel Hamid Bodaoha
    F. El Demerdache
    Ahmed Abaza
    Hana Abdel Fattah
    Safia Sarwat
    Asaad Kellada
      Sherine
      Soheir
      Esmat Mahmoud
      • Director
        • Youssef Chahine
      • Writers
        • Abdel Hai Adib
        • Mohamed Abu Youssef
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      • Trivia
        Official submission of Egypt for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category of the 31st Academy Awards in 1959.
      • Connections
        Featured in Caméra arabe (1987)

      User reviews21

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      7/10
      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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      • Release date
        • January 20, 1958 (Egypt)
      • Country of origin
        • Egypt
      • Language
        • Arabic
      • Also known as
        • Glavna železnička stanica
      • Filming locations
        • Ramses Railway Station, Cairo, Egypt
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 17 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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