Characters & Themes
Karnak (1975) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1975 · 140 mins · Arabic
- Directed by
- Ali Badrakhan
- Starring
- Shwikar, Ahmad Bedir, Hassan Hosny, Abdelaziz Makhyoun, Osama Abbas, Nour El-Sherif
In the 1960s, three university friends—Ismail, Zainab and Helmy—find their futures shattered when they are seized by Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate, subjected to brutal interrogation and torture. The film follows their ordeal amid the era’s repressive state violence, exposing the personal cost of political oppression.
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