Country: Egypt, France
Year: 2012
Duration: 122'
After being forced to participate in the Battle of the Camel, the attack by Mubarak’s followers against the protesters in Tahrir Square, Mahmoud has a hard time providing for his family and begins to live an increasingly isolated life near the Pyramids. When he meets Reem, a divorced adwoman who lives in an upscale neighborhood in Cairo and is a fervent supporter of the revolution, the two couldn’t be more different, but their meeting will profoundly change their lives.
Biography
film director
Yousry Nasrallah
Yousry Nasrallah (Cairo, Egypt, 1952), after graduating in economics and political science from the University of Cairo, studied at the Cairo Film Institute and in 1978 moved to Lebanon, where he worked as a journalist. In 1981, he was assistant director for Volker Schlöndorff on the film Circle of Deceit and production assistant for Youssef Chahine on La mémoire. In 1988 he made his first film, Summer Thefts, selected for the Quinzaine des réalisateurs, while in 1989 his film El Medina won the jury prize in Locarno. His films have been screened at various international festivals, including the Torino Film Festival, which in 2004 presented his TV movie The Gate of the Sun, while Venice and Toronto presented Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story. After the Battle was an official selection at the past Cannes Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Sarikat Sayfeya (Summer Thefts, 1988), Marcides (Mercedes, 1993), Sobyan wa banat (On Boys, Girls and the Veil, 1995), El Medina (1999), Bab el chams (La porta del sole, tv, 2004), Genenet al asmak (The Aquarium, 2008), Ehky ya Scheherazade (Scheherazade, Tell Me a Story, 2009), 18 Days (ep. Interior/Exterior, cm, 2011), Baad el Mawkeaa (After the Battle, 2012).
Declaration
film director
“In After the Battle I wanted to avoid it looking like a documentary film. It is a fiction, and it’s important that people know it. I believe that in turbulent times, but particularly in the middle of a revolution, only fiction enables us to see things a little clearer and helps us begin to understand. Fiction forces us to think, and to look at the complexity of each character, and beyond just what they proclaim. This is also true even when you introduce elements of reality: we filmed real demonstrations, the television footage is real footage that was broadcast at the time.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director
Yousry Nasrallah
sceneggiatura/screenplay Yousry Nasrallah, Omar Shama
fotografia/cinematography Samir Bahsan
montaggio/film editing Mona Rabi’
scenografia/production design Mohammed Atteya
suono/sound Ibrahim Dessouky
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Menna Shalaby (Reem), Bassem Samra (Mahmoud), Nahed El Sebaï (Fatma), Salah Abdallah (Haj Abdallah) produzione/production New Century, Siecle Productions
vendita all’estero/world sales MK2
sceneggiatura/screenplay Yousry Nasrallah, Omar Shama
fotografia/cinematography Samir Bahsan
montaggio/film editing Mona Rabi’
scenografia/production design Mohammed Atteya
suono/sound Ibrahim Dessouky
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Menna Shalaby (Reem), Bassem Samra (Mahmoud), Nahed El Sebaï (Fatma), Salah Abdallah (Haj Abdallah) produzione/production New Century, Siecle Productions
vendita all’estero/world sales MK2
