La vie offre rarement deux fois la même opportunité. Si une option intéressante se trouve à votre portée, parfois il est préférable de l’attraper plutôt que de la perdre pour toujours.
Set in 1881, before a year of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artefacts on the illicit antiquities black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members goes to the police, helping the Antiquities Service find the cache.
Au XIII siècle, le jeune Marco Polo, fils d'une famille de commerçants vénitiens, va à Pékin pour rencontrer l'empereur mongol Kubilai Khan qui a transmis un message d'entente au pape Grégoire X, représentant de l'Occident chrétien. Marco Polo assure la pérennité de l'empereur en déjouant les tentatives d'usurpation de son trône en devenant, en quelque sorte, son ambassadeur dans différents pays d'Asie.
A newsstand owner takes pity on Qinawi, a lame young man, and gives him a job selling newspapers in the Cairo train station. The women there all shun him because of his mild handicap, though he has little trouble walking.
A rich trader has no choice but to sell his slave, who he’s madly in love with, when he loses everything. But destiny will help them meet again. Weddad, a romantic tale inspired by One Thousand and One Nights, was the biggest production of its time. This classical musical was diva Um Kalthoum’s debut, and the film’s success turned Misr Studios into the king of the Egyptian film business.