Release Date: August 12, 2025
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Director: Youssef Chahine
Starring: Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema. The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the “Marilyn Monroe of Arabia”) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo. Blending elements of neorealism with provocative noir-melodrama, Cairo Station is a work of raw populist poetry that explores the individual’s search for a place in Egypt’s new postrevolutionary political order.
Prices and Links:
Criterion- $27.96
OrbitDVD- $25.99
Director: Youssef Chahine
Starring: Youssef Chahine
- Egypt
- 1958
- 76 minutes
- Black & White
- 1.37:1
- Arabic
Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema. The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the “Marilyn Monroe of Arabia”) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo. Blending elements of neorealism with provocative noir-melodrama, Cairo Station is a work of raw populist poetry that explores the individual’s search for a place in Egypt’s new postrevolutionary political order.
BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
- New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- New 2K digital restoration of Cairo as Seen by Chahine(1991), a short documentary by Youssef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim
- New interview with Fahim
- Chahine . . . Why? (2009), a documentary on the director and Cairo Station
- Excerpt from Chahine’s appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
- New English subtitle translation
- PLUS: An essay by Fahim
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