
The Yacoubian Building

Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
Genre: Drama
Actor: Adel Emam, Nour El-Sherif, Hend Sabry, Esaad Younes, Khaled El Sawy, Yousra, Ahmad Rateb, Ahmad Bedir, Somaya El Khashab, Khaled Saleh
Director: Marwan Hamed
Country: Egypt
Produced By: Arab Co, Good News
Runtime: 161
Release: 2006
Rating: 7.3 out of 10
Language: English, العربية, Français,
Views: 310
Content Rating:2h 41min
Quality: DVD
Also known as: Omaret Yakobean, 마렛 야코빈
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