Crime scene ... Cairo Central Station
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Crime scene ... Cairo Central Station |
| Original title | باب الحديد |
| Country of production | Egypt |
| original language | Arabic |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 74 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Youssef Chahine |
| script |
Abdel Hay Adib Mohamad Abou Youssef |
| production | Gabriel Talhami |
| music | Fouad El-Zahiry |
| camera |
Alevise Orfanelli Massoud Issa |
| cut | Kamal Abul Ela |
| occupation | |
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Crime scene ... Cairo Central Station ( Arabic باب الحديد, DMG Bāb al-ḥadīd ) is a 1958 Egyptian film directed by Youssef Chahine .
action
Madbuli, owner of a kiosk at Cairo's main train station , discovers the half-starved, mentally retarded and limping Kenawi at the train station. Out of pity he hires him as a newspaper seller. Kenawi falls in love with Hanuma, who works illegally as a lemonade seller. However, she is already engaged to the transport worker and trade unionist Abu Seri; the marriage is imminent. However, this doesn't stop Kenawi from confessing his love to her and proposing marriage to her as well.
Their rejection, saturated with scorn and ridicule, drives Kenawi further into an angry obsession for Hanuma. When Madbuli tells him about a newspaper article about the unsolved murder of a woman who was stabbed with a knife, the decision to kill Hanuma matures in Kenawi. He buys a knife and tries to lure Hanuma into a warehouse so that she can pick up her water bucket. Hanuma sends a friend. Kenawi blindly stabs her. Not even when he stows it in a large transport box does he notice that it is not Hanuma.
He has Abu Seri put the box, supposedly filled with Hanuma's wedding outfit, on a train. The seriously injured woman is freed from the box before the train leaves. After realizing his mistake, Kenawi succeeds in seizing Hanumas and escapes with her onto the tracks.
There Madbuli manages to distract Kenawi at the last minute, so that he can be taken by surprise by Abu Seri and Hanuma can be freed.
Reviews
"A thematically and ethnically equally interesting film, garish and drastic in the melodramatic intensification, unusual in the realistic portrayal of the social milieu."
Others
The film Tatort… Cairo Central Station, which is set exclusively at Cairo Central Station, was shown in the 1958 Berlinale competition .
Web links
- Crime scene ... Hauptbahnhof Cairo in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Crime scene ... Cairo Central Station at arte-tv.com
Individual evidence
- ↑ Crime scene ... Cairo Central Station. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .