Type:
Feature Film
Director:
Youssef Chahine
Year:
1982
Time:
120 minutes
Language:
English, French and Arabic with English subtitles
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"A directorial self-revelation within the context of popular cinema to rank with anything by Fellini." - Roy Armes, Third World Film Making and the West
The young protagonist from Alexandria, Why? has now grown older and is ailing with a (highly symbolic) heart condition, serious enough to require surgery. During the operation, a child embodying his conscience tries Yehia for the crime of betraying his ideals. After a lifetime of witnesses offer testimony, Yehia's conscience loses the trial and a redundant organ is expelled from the filmmaker's body. Will the loss be fatal? (Text from Film Society of Lincoln Center Tour)
Rental Information
This film is available from AFD for public screenings and television broadcast. For information regarding rental rates and formats, please contact institutions@arabfilm.com for institutional/non-theatrical screenings, or festivals@arabfilm.com for theatrical, festival, television, or other bookings.
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