Arquivo

Choubra, a cosmopolitan neighborhood of Cairo. Hatem, maggoty police officer, handles this neighborhood with an iron hand. Every single citizen fears and hates him. Only Nour, a young woman he lusts after, dares stand up to him. But Nour is secretly in love with Cherif, brilliant and uncorrupted deputy public prosecutor. Also he is just about to get married. Green with envy, Hatem comes between. He wants Nour for himself. He whipsaws her and turns her life into a nightmare. The interwoven love stories become more and more engrossing in their high melodrama, as usual in Youssef Chahine’ career, here in partnership with his collaborator Khaled Youssef, even as they are cut through with dark seams of political satire.