Film

The Asphalt Kings

1996 · 2h · Action · Drama · Thriller

IMDb

6.7

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.

Mahmoud Hemida

Sayed

Abdullah Mahmoud

Ringo

Salwa Khattab

Inshrah

Hassan Hosny

Usta Muhammad

Gamil Ratib

Abdullah

Aida Abdel Aziz

Tafida

Lotfy Labib

Saleh

Mohammed Tawfik

Ali

Manal Afifi

Bataa

Amal Ibrahim

Zahia

Mohamed Sharaf

Shaban

Shaaban Abdel Rahim

Singer

Alaa Awad

Maged El Kedwany

Halzouna

Kamal Soliman

Motawie Eweiss

• Osama FawzyDirector
• Moustafa ZekriWriter
• Tarek El TilmisanyDirector of Photography
• Rageh DaoudOriginal Music Composer
• Ahmad MetwalliEditor

Release date

March 27, 1996

Status

Released

Original language

Arabic

Runtime

2h

Rated

R

Genres

Action, Drama, Thriller