Film

The Aquarium

2008 · 1h 46m · Drama

IMDb

6.1

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.

Hend Sabry

Laila

Amr Waked

Youssef

Gamil Ratib

Youssef's Father

Samah Anwar

Marguerite

Bassem Samra

Zakki

Dorra Zarrouk

Marwa

Ahmed Al Fishawy

Amr

Asser Yassin

Laila Samy

Yara Goubran

Salwa Mohamed Ali

Tarek Mandour

Menha Batraoui

Donia Massoud

Tamim Abdo

Samir

• Yousry NasrallahDirector · Writer
• Nasser Abdel-RahmanWriter
• Gaby KhouryProducer
• Mona RabieEditor

Release date

February 8, 2008

Status

Released

Original language

Arabic

Runtime

1h 46m

Genres

Drama