Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story

Director
Nasrallah, Yousry
Year
2009
Spoken
Arabic
Subtitle
English
Country
Egypt
Length
134
Format
DVD
Off
Description

Cairo, today. Hebba, a television show host, presents a successful political talk show on a privately owned network. Karim, her husband, is deputy editor in chief of a government-owned newspaper. His ambition is to become editor in chief. He is led to believe by the party leaders, that his wife’s constant meddling with opposition politics could put his promotion in danger. Using his boyish charm and sexual prowess, he convinces Hebba to stay away from politics, and devote her program to social issues for which the government cannot be held responsible. She starts a series of talk shows around issues involving women. She listens to the stories of resilient, strong women, who, like Scheherazade in “A Thousand and One Nights”, tell their stories to stay alive.

Genre: Drama

 

DVD includes Two Short Films:

Fallen Angels Paradise and Rotating Square