Alexandria Again and Forever (1989) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1989 · 105 mins · Arabic

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Starring

Amr Abdel Gelil, Maher Selim, Ahmed Al Fishawy, Ragaa Hussein, Hassan El-Adl, Mohga Abdel Rahman

Set in 1987 during a hunger strike by Egypt’s film industry, Youssef Chahine appears as Yehia, the celebrated director chronicled in his earlier works “Alexandria… Why?” and “An Egyptian Story.” Obsessively attached to the handsome actor Amr he discovered, Yehia pushes him into shifting roles—from a demanding Hamlet to the lead in a musical about Alexander the Great—while his own view of Amr continually evolves.