Country: Egypt
Year: 1967
Duration: 108'
Adel is an architect in a public works construction company. After a school collapses because it was built with poor quality material, the architect Hamdi and his friend Muna manage to put the blame on Adel. His wife tries in vain to prove her husband's innocence. But Adel, who escapes from prison, obtains justice.
"Five years after the famous Socialist Decrees were issued in 1961, corruption in public companies began to be discussed. Without a doubt, Al mukharribun was the first film to talk about this problem. Since it was produced by a public production company, the film could appear to be a sort of self criticism. But I didn't make a political film. I don't like this definition. The film is involved, but I based it on my convictions" (Kamal Al Sheikh).
Biography
film director
Kamal Al Sheikh
Kamal Al Sheikh (1919). Director, screenwriter and editor, he began his artistic career in the editing department of Studio Misr in 1938. In 1943 he edited the film Al Bu'asà (Les misérables), directed by Kamal Salim. He has made over 35 feature films and four documentary short films Sadat al ma'arik (The War Lords, 1953), Mu'ahadat al gialà (The Accord on England's Removal of its Army from Egypt, 1954), Hadihi hiya Suriyya (This is Syria, 1958), Hiwar (Conversation, 1972).
FILMOGRAFIA
Al manzil raqam 13 (La casa numero 13, 1952), Mu'amara (Complotto, 1953), Hayat aw mawt (Vita o morte, 1954), Hubb wa dumu'e (Amore e lacrime, 1955), Al gharib (Lo straniero, co-regia Fattin Abdu Al Wahab, 1956), Hubb wa i'dam (Amore e esecuzione, 1956), Ardu al salam (La terra della pace, 1957), Ardu al ahlam (La terra dei sogni, 1957), Tuggiaru al mawt (I commercianti della morte, 1957), Al malak al saghir (Il piccolo angelo, 1958), Saiyyidatu al qassr (La signora del palazzo, 1958), Min ajli imra'a (Per una donna, 1959), Qalbun yahtariq (Un cuore che brucia, 1959), Min ajli hubbi (Per il mio amore, 1959), Malak wa shaittan (Angelo e diavolo, 1960), Hubbi al wahid (Il mio unico amore, 1960), Lan a'tarif (Non confesserò, 1961), Al liss wa al kilab (Il ladro e i cani, 1962), Al shaittanu al saghir (Il piccolo diavolo, 1963), Al laila al akhira (L'ultima notte, 1963), Al kha'ina (La traditrice, 1965), Thalathat lussus (Tre ladri, film a episodi, co-regia Hasan Al Imam e Fattin Abdu Al Wahab, 1966), Al mukharribun (I sabotatori, 1967), Al ragiul alladhi faqada dhillahu (L' uomo che ha perduto la sua ombra, 1968), Miramar (1969), Bi'ru al hirman (Il pozzo della privazione, 1969), Ghurub wa shuruq (Crepuscolo e aurora, 1970), Shai'un Fi Sadri (Qualcosa nel mio cuore, 1971), Al harib (Il fuggitivo, 1974), Al Man Nuttliqu Al Rassas (Su chi spariamo, 1975), Sana ula hubb (Primo anno d'amore, co-regia Salah Abu Seif, Atif Salem, Hilmi Rafla e Niazi Mustafa, 1976), Wa thlithuhum al shaittan (Il terzo è il diavolo, 1978), Al su'ud ila al hawiya (L'ascesa verso l'abisso, 1978), Al tauws (Il pavone, 1982), Qahiru al zaman (Il domatore del tempo, 1987).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Kamal Al Sheikh.
Plot: Ibrahim Al Ba'thi.
Screenplay: Hasan Ramzi e Fathi Zeki.
Dialogues: Musa Sabri.
Director of photography: Mahmud Nassr.
Art director: Maher Abdu Al Nur.
Editor: Sa'id Al Sheikh.
Sound: Aziz Fadel.
Music: André Rider.
Cast and characters: Lubna Abdu Al Aziz, Ahmad Mad-har (Adel), Leila Fawzi (Muna), Omar Al Hariri (Hamdi), Abdu Al Alim Khattab, Hasan Al Sherbini, Rashwan Tawfiq, Wagih Iskandar.
Production company and Italian distribution: Ente Generale del Cinema.
Plot: Ibrahim Al Ba'thi.
Screenplay: Hasan Ramzi e Fathi Zeki.
Dialogues: Musa Sabri.
Director of photography: Mahmud Nassr.
Art director: Maher Abdu Al Nur.
Editor: Sa'id Al Sheikh.
Sound: Aziz Fadel.
Music: André Rider.
Cast and characters: Lubna Abdu Al Aziz, Ahmad Mad-har (Adel), Leila Fawzi (Muna), Omar Al Hariri (Hamdi), Abdu Al Alim Khattab, Hasan Al Sherbini, Rashwan Tawfiq, Wagih Iskandar.
Production company and Italian distribution: Ente Generale del Cinema.