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

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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