Eagles of the Republic (2025)

Directed by

Tarik Saleh

Genre

black comedy, drama film, thriller film

Country

Germany, France, Denmark, Sweden

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

14

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 57 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

An Egyptian actor is pressured to star in a propaganda film about the country's dictator. He must navigate threats and manipulation from those in power around him.

tensedarkly comicpoliticalsuspensefulsatiricalbleakurgent

What happens

Eagles of the Republic is a 2025 Egyptian Arabic-language political thriller film written and directed by Tarik Saleh, as the final installment of his Cairo trilogy, following The Nile Hilton Incident (2017) and Boy from Heaven (2022). It stars Fares Fares as George Fahmy, an Egyptian actor who is pressured to star in a propaganda film about the country's dictator Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. It also stars Lyna Khoudri, Amr Waked, Zineb Triki and Cherien Dabis. The film had its world premiere at the main competition of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival on 19 May, where it was nominated for the Palme d'Or. It was theatrically released in France on 12 November 2025 by Memento, and in Sweden on 14 November. It was selected as the Swedish entry for the Best International Feature Film at the 98th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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