The Road

Year: 1964

Runtime: 105 mins

Language: Arabic

Director: Hossam El Dine Mostafa

Drama

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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