The Sparrow (1972)
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
Director: Youssef Chahine
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Seif Abdelrahman as Raouf |
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Habiba as Fatima |
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Salah Qabil as Youssef Fathallah |
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Mohsena Tawfiq as Baheya |
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Ali Al Sharif as Sheikh Ahmed |
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Salah Mansour as Ismail |
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Mahmoud El Meligy as Johnny |
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Hamdy Ahmed as Auf |
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Mariam Fakhr Eddine as |
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Ragaa Hussein as Zubaida |
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Mahmoud Qabil as Reyad |
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Hassan El Baroudy as |
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Nazim Sharawy as |
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Abdel Warith Assir as |
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Muhammad Khalil as |
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Sayed Shahat as |
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Ahmad Bedir as |
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Abdel Ghani El Nagdi as |
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Saeed Abdel Ghani as The Journalist |
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Mohamed Abu Hashish as |
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Ali Jawhar as |
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Sameh Moursi as |
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Gamal Abdel Nasser as Self - on TV (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| Directing | Youssef Chahine | Director |
| Writing | Youssef Chahine | Writer |
| Editing | Rashida Abdel Salam | Editor |
| Writing | Lotfy El Kholy | Writer |
| Production | Youssef Chahine | Producer |
| Directing | Ali Badrakhan | Assistant Director |
| Production | Ahmed Rachedi | Producer |
| Camera | Mustafa Imam | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Sheikh Imam | Songs |
| Writing | Ahmad Fouad Negm | Lyricist |
| Sound | Mohsena Tawfiq | Songs |
| Sound | Ali Ismail | Original Music Composer |