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The Yacoubian Building is a egyptien film of genre Drama directed by Marwan Hamed released in USA on 1 june 2006 with Adel Imam

The Yacoubian Building (2006)

ʿ Imārāt Yaqūbīān ou Omaret Yakobean

The Yacoubian Building
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Released in USA 1 june 2006
Length 2h45
Directed by
OriginEgypte
Genres Drama
Rating74% 3.7476153.7476153.7476153.7476153.747615

The Yacoubian Building (Arabic: عمارة يعقوبيان‎, transliterated: ʿImārat Yaʿqūbīān or Omaret Yakobean) is an Egyptian film based on the novel of the same title by author Alaa Al Aswany. It has been reported to be the highest-budgeted film in the history of Egyptian cinema.

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The film opens with a montage tracing the building's history, as wealthy expatriate and Egyptian residents give way, after the 1952 coup that overthrew King Farouk and eventually resulted in the installation of Gamal Abdel Nasser as President of Egypt, to new families, and as the rooftop storage rooms are converted into living space for lower-class families. The rooftop community, effectively a slum neighborhood, is symbolic of the urbanization of Egypt and of the burgeoning population growth in its large cities in recent decades, especially among the poor and working classes. In the faded apartments of the main floors and on the building's teeming roof, the films's principal characters are introduced:

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