Al Asfour (, "The Sparrow") is a 1972 film directed by Youssef Chahine, with Ali Badrakhan as second director.
Synopsis June, 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day War. The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer the harassment of a corrupt businessman. The police officer crosses paths with a journalist who is investigating what appears to be a scandal involving the theft of weapons and war machinery by high officials. Youssef Chahine offers us a portrait of the “sparrows”, the simple people of his country whom others use to get rich.
Cast
Salah Kabil as Yussif Fath el-Bab Ali El Scherif as Rawf Mahmoud El-Meliguy as Ryad Seif El Dine as Ismail Mariem Fakhr El Dine as Fatma Habiba Mohsena Tewfik as Bahiya Sid Ali Kouiret
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