Cairo Station

Youssef Chahine, 1958

Spine #1273

Picked by 1 guest

Crime / Drama / Thriller

Criterion TMDB

Directed by Youssef Chahine

Written by Abdel Hai Adib

Cinematography Alevise Orfanelli

Edited by Kamal Abul Ela

Cast Farid Shawqy, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine, Hassan El Baroudy, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Ahmed Abaza, Essmat Mahmoud, Hussain Ismael

Picked by

Luca Guadagnino director

“Now, let’s go and grab stuff. I mean, Cairo Station, Youssef Chahine. My Mother is Algerian, I grew up in Ethiopia, and, for the… let’s say, Maghreb, and for all that part of sub-Saharan world of Africa, Chahine was like a legend and it was engraved in the imagery. But also he was one of the great auteurs, and this movie is just sublime.”

Luca Guadagnino