Country: Egypt
Year: 1999
Duration: 140'
Yehia al Mankabadi is a young and promising police officer who is chosen by the Internal Ministry to undertake a very special mission called "Land of Fear". The agent has to infiltrate Egyptian organized crime, which controls drug trafficking and the contraband of weapons and archeological artifacts. Yehia must also tell the Ministry the names of any corrupt policemen he discovers. There is just one problem: the mission will last his entire life.
«Land of fear is not only an ordinary adventure, but it is the adventure of man in life, it is about the responsability of the choice, it is about the relationship between man and the greater forces.
Now, the profits' mission is no more carrying the commandments of God, but carrying the screams of man's pain to God» (Daoud Abd El-Sayed).
Biography
film director
Daoud Abd El-Sayed
Daoud Abd El-Sayed (Cairo, 1946), in 1967 graduated at the Institute of Cinema in his hometown. From 1974 to 1980 has made short film and documentaries. Al-sa' âlik (1985) is his first full lenght film. Ard el khof is his sixth feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
The Population of the Canal's Cities (cm, doc, 1974), Testament of a Wise Man in the Affairs of the Village and the Education (cm, doc, 1976), Work in the Fields (cm, doc, 1979), About People, the Prophets and the Artists (cm, doc, 1980), Al-sa' âlik (The Bandits, 1985), Al-bahth 'an Sayyid Marzûk (Looking for Sa'id Marzûk, 1990), Kît Kât (1991), Ard al-ahlam (Dreamland, 1993), Sarek al-farah (Stolen Joy, 1994), Ard el khof (1999).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Daoud Abd El Sayed.
Director of photography: Samir Bahzan.
Art director: Onssi Abou Seif.
Editor: Adel Mounir.
Sound: Ahmed Gaber.
Music: Rageh Daoud.
Cast and characters: Ahmed Zaki (l'ufficiale), Farah (la moglie), Sami El-Adl, Ezat Abou Ouf, Hamdi Gheeth, A. R. Abou Zahrah.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Shoae Company for Production Media & Culture, 29 Yathreb Street, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt, tel. +20-2-3369510, fax +20-2-3489183.
Director of photography: Samir Bahzan.
Art director: Onssi Abou Seif.
Editor: Adel Mounir.
Sound: Ahmed Gaber.
Music: Rageh Daoud.
Cast and characters: Ahmed Zaki (l'ufficiale), Farah (la moglie), Sami El-Adl, Ezat Abou Ouf, Hamdi Gheeth, A. R. Abou Zahrah.
Produzione e vendita all'estero: Shoae Company for Production Media & Culture, 29 Yathreb Street, Dokki, Cairo, Egypt, tel. +20-2-3369510, fax +20-2-3489183.