The Sparrow

1h 50m
Drama
6.3

Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.

Cast

Seif Abdelrahman
Raouf
Habiba
Fatima
Salah Qabil
Youssef Fathallah
Mohsena Tawfiq
Baheya
Ali Al Sharif
Sheikh Ahmed
Salah Mansour
Ismail
Mahmoud El Meligy
Johnny
Hamdy Ahmed
Auf
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Unknown
Ragaa Hussein
Zubaida
Mahmoud Qabil
Reyad
Hassan El Baroudy
Unknown
Nazim Sharawy
Unknown
Abdel Warith Assir
Unknown
Muhammad Khalil
Unknown
Sayed Shahat
Unknown
Ahmad Bedir
Unknown
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Unknown
Saeed Abdel Ghani
The Journalist
Mohamed Abu Hashish
Unknown
Ali Jawhar
Unknown
Sameh Moursi
Unknown
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Self - on TV (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

Youssef Chahine
Director, Writer, Producer
Lotfy El Kholy
Writer
Rashida Abdel Salam
Editor
Mustafa Imam
Director of Photography
Ali Badrakhan
Assistant Director
Ahmed Rachedi
Producer
Ali Ismail
Original Music Composer
Sheikh Imam
Songs
Mohsena Tawfiq
Songs
Ahmad Fouad Negm
Lyricist

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