Cairo Station

Film: Cairo Station
Rating:3 out of 5
Release Year: June, 1958
Length: 1hr 17 min.
Genre: Comedy/Crime
Main Cast: Farid Shawki (Abu Siri), Hind Rustum (Hanuma), Youssef Chanine (Qinawi), Hassan el Baroudi (Madbouli), Abdel Aziz Khalil (Abu Gaber), Naima Wasfy (Hallawatim), etc.
Director: Youssef Chahine

Synopsis: This film takes place in Cairo, Egypt at the Cairo Station. Hounama a very beautiful young women who sells drinks at the Cairo Station (illegally). Kinawi, a mentally ill young man who sell newspapers for a living is obsessed with Hounama. Hounama jokes around and promises him a possible future together while knowing that would never happen. That's because she is already engaged with Abu Siri. Abu Siri is a porter of the Cairo Station who is well known and well respected. This love triangle escalates quickly and many people get involved in order to come to a civil conclution.

Review: IMDb rated this film a 7.8/10 with 2,552 reviews. One of the reviews said, "A perfect film, the greatest Arabic language film ever made, and one that I would personally rank as one of the greatest films made anywhere by anyone" (ametaphysicalshark). On the other hand, I personally don't think this film is perfect because the acting was not at all perfect. It might be because of how old the film is but I think a lot of reactions of the actors were not at all at their best. I just couldn't connect with any of the actors/actresess and in order to consider this as a perfect film I would atleast need to connect someway. The concept is great but the film is not at all a film I would rewatch on my free time.