Characters & Themes
The Road (1964) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1964 · 105 mins · Arabic
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- Directed by
- Hossam El Dine Mostafa
- Starring
- Soad Hosny, Mohamed Attia, Mohammed Tawfik, Ahmed Loxer, Rushdy Abaza, Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
After his mother is arrested, a pampered young man with no education or skills seeks the mysterious, wealthy father he has never met. He journeys from Alexandria to Cairo, becomes involved in an affair, and falls for an earnest journalist who tries to help him navigate his aimless quest. The film adapts Naguib Mahfouz’s 1964 novel of the same name.
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