Cairo Station (1958)
- Original title
- باب الحديد
- Directed by
- Youssef Chahine
- Genre
- drama film
- Country
- Egypt
- Runtime
- 1h 14m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 7.4 of 10 from 143 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
In Cairo's central train station, a poor newspaper seller becomes dangerously fixated on a lively soft drink vendor. His obsession grows against the backdrop of a serial killer loose in the city, leading to tragedy.
tensesuspensefulgrittyunsettlingpsychologically intensesocially awareatmospheric
What happens
Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian crime-drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and Abdel Hay Adib, and starring Farid Shawqi and Hind Rostom. The plot follows a newspaper salesman's dangerous obsession with a pretty young refreshments seller amidst a serial killer's spree through Cairo. Submitted for competition in the 8th Berlin International Film Festival, it was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee. Since the 1970s, the film has found renewed interest with new generations of international film lovers and has been hailed as a masterpiece in the style of neorealist cinema. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Al-Zawjah al-Azra' (1958)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.