Cairo Station

Bab El Hadid, feature film, 1958

DIRECTED BY: Youssef Chahine

Cairo Station

CAST:
Youssef Chahine (Qinawi),
Hind Rostom (Hanuma),
Farid Shawqi (Abou Serib),
Hassan el Baroudi

SCRIPT:
Mohamed Abu Youssef,
Abdel Hay Adib

PHOTOGRAPHY:
Alevise Orfanelli

Synopsis:
The story takes place at a train station in Cairo, and the director, Youssef Chahine, plays the leading part of Qinawi. He is a simple and naďve newspaper salesman in love with Hanuma, a lemonade salesgirl. Even though she is indifferent towards Qinawi, she flirts with him because she wants to provoke her fiancée, Abou Serib.

b/w, 95 min