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N The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)
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The Nile Hilton Incident (2017)

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Country: SV/GER/DK/MOR/FR
Technical: col/2.39:1 111m
Director: Tarik Saleh
Cast: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher, Hania Amar

Synopsis:

2011: on the eve of the Arab Spring, a Cairo policeman investigates the murder of a girl with connections to a blackmail racket, a wealthy businessman and MP, and State Security. Also involved are a witness in the shape of a Sudanese chambermaid, some photos taken with a concealed camera, and a club which grooms Tunisian singers as prostitutes.

Review:

Painstakingly staged, handsomely filmed political thriller of the kind Costa-Gavras might have made. The protagonist is a chain-smoking, disillusioned widower, determined not to be swallowed up in the all-enveloping corruption of Mubharak's police state. Despite the multi-national production, the impression remains of a plot only Egyptians will fully comprehend, and some loose ends remain untied, but the ending has a jaundiced flavour that reminds one of Chinatown.

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Country: SV/GER/DK/MOR/FR
Technical: col/2.39:1 111m
Director: Tarik Saleh
Cast: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher, Hania Amar

Synopsis:

2011: on the eve of the Arab Spring, a Cairo policeman investigates the murder of a girl with connections to a blackmail racket, a wealthy businessman and MP, and State Security. Also involved are a witness in the shape of a Sudanese chambermaid, some photos taken with a concealed camera, and a club which grooms Tunisian singers as prostitutes.

Review:

Painstakingly staged, handsomely filmed political thriller of the kind Costa-Gavras might have made. The protagonist is a chain-smoking, disillusioned widower, determined not to be swallowed up in the all-enveloping corruption of Mubharak's police state. Despite the multi-national production, the impression remains of a plot only Egyptians will fully comprehend, and some loose ends remain untied, but the ending has a jaundiced flavour that reminds one of Chinatown.


Country: SV/GER/DK/MOR/FR
Technical: col/2.39:1 111m
Director: Tarik Saleh
Cast: Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher, Hania Amar

Synopsis:

2011: on the eve of the Arab Spring, a Cairo policeman investigates the murder of a girl with connections to a blackmail racket, a wealthy businessman and MP, and State Security. Also involved are a witness in the shape of a Sudanese chambermaid, some photos taken with a concealed camera, and a club which grooms Tunisian singers as prostitutes.

Review:

Painstakingly staged, handsomely filmed political thriller of the kind Costa-Gavras might have made. The protagonist is a chain-smoking, disillusioned widower, determined not to be swallowed up in the all-enveloping corruption of Mubharak's police state. Despite the multi-national production, the impression remains of a plot only Egyptians will fully comprehend, and some loose ends remain untied, but the ending has a jaundiced flavour that reminds one of Chinatown.

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