Cairo Station Blu-Ray (US Import)

Detalles

Cairo Station Blu-Ray (US Import)
Criterion

Título original: باب الحديد

Año: 1958
Pais: Egypt
Código de región: Blu-Ray: A
Contenido: Blu-Ray
EAN: 715515317511

Imagen: 1.37:1 (1080p)

HDR: -

Audio: Arabic - Uncompressed Mono

Subtítulos: English

Calificatión por edades: Not Rated

Género: Drama

Reparto: Youssef Chahine, Hind Rostom

Director: Youssef Chahine


Sinopsis:

Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema. The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the “Marilyn Monroe of Arabia”) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo. Blending elements of neorealism with provocative noir-melodrama, Cairo Station is a work of raw populist poetry that explores the individual’s search for a place in Egypt’s new postrevolutionary political order.

Extras:

• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New 2K digital restoration of Cairo as Seen by Chahine (1991), a short documentary by Youssef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim
• New interview with Fahim
• Chahine . . . Why? (2009), a documentary on the director and Cairo Station
• Excerpt from Chahine’s appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
• New English subtitle translation
• PLUS: An essay by Fahim