Destiny
Al-massir
1997, Film, 135 min, Comedy, Drama, History, Arabic, Egypt, MoviePedia score 67
In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.
Directed by Youssef Chahine
Cast
- Nour El-Sherif as Averroes
- Laila Eloui as The gypsy woman
- Mahmoud Hemida as Al Mansour, The Caliph
- Safia El Emari as Averroes' Wife
- Mohamed Mounir as The Bard
- Khaled Nabawy as Nasser, The Crown Prince
- Seif Abdelrahman as The Caliph's Brother
- Abdalla Mahmoud as Borhan
- Ahmed Fouad Selim as Cheikh Riad
- Rogeena as Salma
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