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The Yacoubian Building (2006)

The Yacoubian Building (2006)

عمارة يعقوبيان
161 minutes AR Drama
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zaki, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pious Hajj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy his sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, wants to support her family with her 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 Coptic brothers, one a tailor and the other being Zaki's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
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Adel Emam
Zaki El Dessouki
Nour El-Sherif
Hajj Muhammad Azzam
Hend Sabry
Bothayna El Sayed
Mohamed Imam
Taha El Shazly
Esaad Younes
Dawlat El Dessouki
Khaled El Sawy
Hatem Rashed
Yousra
Christine
Ahmad Rateb
Fanous
Khaled Saleh
Kamal el Fouly
Bassem Samra
Abd Raboh

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Production companies: Arab Co, Good News
Production countries: Egypt

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