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Al-Ard = The land / Sharikah al-ʻĀmmah li-Tawzīʻ wa-ʻArḍ al-Aflām al-Sīnimāʼīyah (Egypt) ; screenplay by Hasan Fuʼad ; producer, Mustafa ʻAbd al-Azīz ; director, Youssef Chahine.
LIBRA VHS PJ7862.H27 A82 1990z
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Youssef Chahine collection
- Language:
- Arabic
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sharqāwī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān--Film adaptations.
- Sharqāwī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān.
- Sharqāwī, ʻAbd al-Raḥmān, 1920-1987.
- Farmers--Egypt--Drama.
- Farmers.
- Peasant uprisings--Egypt--Drama.
- Peasant uprisings.
- Egypt.
- Motion pictures, Egyptian.
- Genre:
- Feature films.
- Film adaptations.
- Drama.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (130 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- Land
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle, WA : Arab Film Distribution, [between 1990 and 1999?]
- Language Note:
- Arabic with English subtitles.
- System Details:
- VHS.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- In a small village in Egypt peasants encounter problems in getting enough water to irrigate their fields and struggle against the local landowner, who decides to appropriate part of their land to build a road to his new estate.
- Participant:
- Yaḥyā Shahīn, Hamdī Aḥmad, ʻIzzat ʻAlāyilī, Ali El Scherif, Tawfīq al-Dhaqn.
- Credits:
- Cinematographer, ʻAbd al-Halim Nasr ; editor, Rashīdah ʻAbd al-Salām ; music, Ali Ismail .
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1969.
- Based on the novel by ʻAbd al-Raḥman al-Sharqāwī.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- OCLC:
- 45617548
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