The Yacoubian Building

June. 01,2006      
Rating:
7.5
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.

Adel Emam as  زكي الدسوقي
Nour El-Sherif as  محمد عزام
Hend Sabry as  بثينة
Esaad Younes as  دولت دسوقي
Khaled El Sawy as  حاتم راشد
Yousra as  كريستين
Ahmed Rateb as  فانوس
Ahmad Bedir as  مالك
Somaya El Khashab as  سعاد
Khaled Saleh as  كمال الفولي

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