Alexandria... New York

Original Title: Alexandria... New York
Director: Youssef Chahine
Screenwriter:Youssef Chahine & Khaled Youssef
Nationality: Egypt - France
Original language : Arabic
Genre : Drame
Premiere : 25 August 2004 (Egypt)
Runtime : 128 mn
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Synopsis

Egyptian film director Yehia encounters his first love Ginger as he was being celebrated in New York. Back then they were 19 years old. The American Dream was the thing of the 20th century. Yehia, the boy from Alexandria and Ginger the American gal were students at the most prestigious Institute of Dramatic Art, California. They had pledged to love each other for ever. 40 years on they are back together but the world has changed and the American Dream is no longer what it used to be. They are poles apart but not quite though … for Yehia finds out that he had begotten an American child, a boy. Through a boisterous epic in which heroes love, sing, dance, laugh and cry, Youssef Chahine reconsiders his past and his ambiguous relationship to America which he loved so much

Cast

Mahmoud Hémeida .......... Yehia
Yousra .......... Ginger
Ahmed Yehia .......... young Yehia & Alexandre
Lébléa .......... Jeanne

Screenplay : Youssef Chahine & Khaled Youssef
Dir of photography : Ramses Maerzouk
Sound : Jérôme Ayasse Music : Yehia El Mougy
Editing : Rachida Abdel Salam
Costumes : Monia Fath El Bab Set : Hamed Hemdan
Producer : Humbert Balsan
Production company : OGNON PICTURES
Co-producer : Marianne Khoury & Gabriel Khoury
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