Alexandria Again and Forever

1989 Egyptian film

1989 (1989)

Running time

106 minutesCountryEgyptLanguageArabic

Alexandria Again and Forever or Alexandria again and again as its Egyptian name (Egyptian Arabic: إسكندريه كمان وكمان, translit.Iskandria Kaman wa Kaman, French: Alexandrie Encore et Toujours) is the third entry in a series of four films by director Youssef Chahine. This 104-minute-long film is mainly in Arabic, with English-language subtitles. It was preceded by the films Alexandria... Why? (1978) An Egyptian Story (1982)^[1] and followed by Alexandria... New York (2004) The film features (Salah Zulfikar), (Soad Hosny) and (Adel Emam) among others in cameo appearances representing the Egyptian actors syndicate. The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 63rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.^[2]

Following a violent outburst with Amr, his favorite actor, the director Yehia Eskandarany (Youssef Chahine) is forced to scrutinize his entire career under scrutiny. Nothing looks familiar any longer. His country and African cinema he loves so much, also looks strange. Little by little, while remembering his first film with Amr, Yehia traces the infiltration of the influential petro-dollar into the Egyptian cinema industry. But was it really money that caused the rift between him and Amr? Or was it the strikingly beautiful Nadia?

References

^ Pratt, Douglas (2004), Doug Pratt's: Movies, Television, Music, Art, Adult and More!, vol. 1, UNET 2 Corporation, pp. 39–40, ISBN 1932916008.
^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences