El Gezeira (2007)

Original title

الجزيرة

Directed by

Sherif Arafa

Genre

drama film, action film, biographical film, crime film, thriller film, suspense film

Country

Egypt

Runtime

2h 23m

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In Upper Egypt, a young gang boss loses his mother and wife in a massacre during a gang war. He takes revenge and then takes control of the island, running illegal deals in weapons and drugs with the police.

tensegrittyrevenge-drivendarkviolentsuspensefulgrim

What happens

The Island (Arabic: الجزيرة, romanized: El-Gezeira) is a 2007 action-thriller Egyptian film starring Ahmed El Sakka, Mahmoud Yacine, Hend Sabri and Khaled Elsawy and directed by Sherif Arafa. In upper Egypt, a gang war for leadership leads to a massacre, killing the mother and wife of the young gang boss and most of his clan. He avenges them, and controls the whole island for trade in weapons and drugs, and makes illegal deals with the police. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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