Director
Fawsi, Ossama
Year
1999
Spoken
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Egypt
Length
80
Format
DVD
Off
Description
A homeless man dies of an overdose in a popular Cairo neighborhood. He was once an ideal husband and represented security for his family. Then one day, everything changed. Upon his death his friends from the underworld drag the corpse around for a whole night of madness, drinking and hallucinating situations. A game with death where the dead man becomes more alive than the living and fallen angels live according to their own rules, laws and desires in the chaos of the Egyptian capital. The film is based on a famous short story written by the Brazilian writer Jorge Amado.
Genre: Short Story, Comedy
Included in Film, Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story.