Chitchat on the Nile (1971)

Original title

ثرثرة فوق النيل

Directed by

Hussein Kamal

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Egypt

Runtime

2h 02m

Rating

6.4 of 10 from 14 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.

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How it feels

A group of well-off friends in Cairo spend their evenings on a houseboat talking and drinking. Their carefree lives are disrupted by political change and personal troubles.

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What happens

Chitchat on the Nile (Arabic: ثرثرة فوق النيل) (Adrift on the Nile) is a 1971 film based on the 1966 novel Adrift on the Nile by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. It is directed by Hussein Kamal and stars Ahmed Ramzy, Magda El-Khatib, Emad Hamdy, Adel Adham, Mervat Amin, Soheir Ramzi and Naemat Mokhtar. The film is a member in Top 100 Egyptian films list. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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