Inspired by a letter by Friedrich Engels and a 1974 account of two militant Marxist writers who had been imprisoned by the Nasser regime, Straub-Huillet filmed this film in France and Egypt during 1980. They reflect on Egypt’s history of peasant struggle and liberation from Western colonization, and link it to class tensions in France shortly before the Revolution of 1789, quoting texts by Engels as well as the pioneering nonfiction film Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory (1895).
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Danièle Huillet, Bahgat Elnadi, Gerard Samaan
Crew: Danièle Huillet (Director), Jean-Marie Straub (Director), William Lubtchansky (Director of Photography), Marguerite Perlado (Director of Photography), Jean-Marie Straub (Editor), Caroline Champetier (Director of Photography)
Country: Egypt, France
Language: العربية, Deutsch, Français
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Runtime: 104 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Feb 17, 1982
IMDb: 4.37
Keywords:woman director
