Fate

Movie
German title	Fate
Original title	al-Massir (المصير) / Le Destin
Country of production	France , Egypt
original language	Arabic , French
Publishing year	1997
length	135 minutes
Age rating	FSK 12
Rod
Director	Youssef Chahine
script	Youssef Chahine Khaled Youssef
production	Humbert Balsan Gabriel Khoury
music	Kamal el-Tawil Yehia El Mougy
camera	Mohsen Nasr
cut	Rachida Abdel Salam
occupation
Nour El-Sherif : Ibn Rushd Safia el-Emary : Zainab, his wife Mahmoud Hemida : Caliph el-Mansur Mohamed Mounir : Marwan, the singer Khaled el-Nabawi : Prince Nasir Laila Eloui : Manuela, the gypsy Seif El Dine : brother of the caliph Abdalla Mahmoud : Borhan Ahmed Fouad Selim : Sheikh Riyadh Magdi Idris : Emir of the sect Ahmed Moukhtar : singer Sherifa Maher : Manuela's mother Rayek Azzab : El Razi Hassan El Adl : Gaafar Hani Salama : Abdalla Faris Rahoma : Youssef, the young French Ingi Abaza : Sarah

Fate (المصير, DMG al-Maṣīr ) is a 1997 Egyptian-French film directed by Youssef Chahine .

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Ibn Ruschd, Commentary on De anima des Aristotle, French manuscript from the end of the 13th century.

The film is set in Arabian Andalusia in the 12th century. The scholar Averroes (Arabic Ibn Ruschd ) is the chief judge and advisor to the Caliph el-Mansur. He lives a life full of wisdom, love and tolerance with his family and students. The caliph, beset by the growing influence of Christians and radical Islamic sects, increasingly distanced himself from him, and finally had his writings burned and Ibn Ruschd banished. Ibn Ruschd's students have meanwhile copied his books and saved them abroad.

Reviews

"A courageous parable on the erosion of tolerance and enlightenment through the advance of fundamentalist ideas, which shows clear analogies to current developments in the Middle East."

- Lexicon of international film

Awards

• Grand Prix of the 50th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival

Web links

• The fate of the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Fate. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .