Film

Alexandria Again and Forever

1989 · 1h 45m · Drama

IMDb

6.5

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.

Youssef Chahine

Yehia Eskendarany / Marc Antoine / Sostratus / Hephaestion

Yousra

Nadia

Hussein Fahmy

Stelio

Amr Abdel Gelil

Amr / Alexandre / Hamlet

Hesham Selim

Magdy

Tahiya Cariocca

Tahia

Huda Sultan

Nadia's Mother

Seif Abdelrahman

Mohamed Bey

Abla Kamel

Curator

Zaki Fatin Abdel Wahab

Guindi

Mohamed Henedi

Salah Zulfikar

Self

Ragaa Hussein

Hassan El-Adl

Ahmed ElHariri

Tawfiq Saleh

Tewfik

• Youssef ChahineWriter · Director
• Yousry NasrallahWriter
• Humbert BalsanProducer
• Marianne KhouryProducer
• Ramses MarzoukDirector of Photography
• Mohammad NouhOriginal Music Composer
• Rashida Abdel SalamEditor
• Khaled El HagarCasting

Release date

December 4, 1989

Status

Released

Original language

Arabic

Runtime

1h 45m

Genres

Drama