The Aquarium (2008)
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
Director: Yousry Nasrallah
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Hend Sabry as Laila |
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Amr Waked as Youssef |
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Gamil Ratib as Youssef's Father |
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Samah Anwar as Marguerite |
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Bassem Samra as Zakki |
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Dorra Zarrouk as Marwa |
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Ahmed Al Fishawy as Amr |
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Asser Yassin as |
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Laila Samy as |
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Yara Goubran as |
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Salwa Mohamed Ali as |
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Tarek Mandour as |
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Menha Batraoui as |
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Donia Massoud as |
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Tamim Abdo as Samir |
| Sound | Tamer Karawan | Music |
| Directing | Mona Assaad | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Mona Rabie | Editor |
| Production | Gaby Khoury | Producer |
| Writing | Yousry Nasrallah | Writer |
| Directing | Yousry Nasrallah | Director |
| Writing | Nasser Abdel-Rahman | Writer |