Cairo Station

Name: Cairo Station
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: January 20, 1958
Duration: 77 min
Rating: 87

1958

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Arab Film Distribution | Release Date: January 20, 1958 | Not Rated

Summary: A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.

Genre(s): Drama, Crime

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 77 min

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Jamie Russell

Watching the film now, almost half a century after its first screening, it's easy to see why it upset so many people "Cairo Station" is a pressure cooker of lust, jealousy, and psychosis. Read full review

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Michael Wilmington

Egypt's foremost filmmaker Chahine directs and stars in the movie most beloved by Egyptian audiences: a vibrant, lower-depths saga of the working community at a Cairo train station: concessionaires, porters and baggage-handlers, beset by bosses and torn by inner conflicts. [09 Jul 1999, p.L]

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The Guardian Peter Bradshaw

Chahine conducts his big cast with uproarious energy, immediacy and freshness; he has tremendous stylised set pieces, including a railway-carriage rock'n'roll number performed by a group gloriously credited as Mike and his Skyrockets. Read full review

Trevor Johnston

It's a strikingly controlled, confident, bitingly effective display, which leaves you wondering where this film has been all our lives. Read full review

Richard Brody

[Chahine]'s richly textured, good-humored, visually forceful storytelling portrays the surging, ribald vitality of Egyptian society that squirms beneath the unjust authority of dictators and dogmatists. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

The level of sexual tension and general creepiness as Chahine's character becomes unhinged is more intense than one would expect from a movie made in the 1950s under a totalitarian regime. [04 May 2017, p.E7]

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Reportedly (and understandably) Youssef Chahine’s most popular film among Egyptians, this gritty and relatively early (1958) black-and-white masterpiece also features his most impressive acting turn, as a crippled news vendor working at the title railroad station. Read full review

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