Atef El-Taieb

  • Atef El-Taieb – Al Hob Fawk Hadabet Al Haram AKA Love on the Pyramids Plateau (1986)

    Atef El-Taieb1981-1990DramaEgypt

    Voted among the Greatest Egyptian Films at the 1996 Cairo Film Festival

    It shows the incredulity of exaggerated hardships a young man has to go through to get married in Egypt, with lower than average incomes, and inability to find a decent job in an ever more competitive world. Basic needs like shelter are even hard to sustain.
    The young man and the girl cannot pay the bill, going through a myriad network of all sorts of shady people to help them, to no avail.
    In the end, only the walls of the ancient pyramids provide shelter for the homeless lovers.Read More »

  • Atef El-Taieb – Sawak al-utubis AKA The Bus Driver (1982)

    1981-1990Atef El-TaiebDramaEgypt

    Arguably the best film of the Egyptian neorealist school of the eighties, exemplified by Daoud Abd El-Sayed, Khairy Bishara, and Mohamed Khan. depicting the devastating effects of global trade on the simple lives on the inhabitants.
    Directed by Atef El-Tayeb, one of the boldest names in Egyptian cinema, who died prematurely and worked on the issues concerning the poor and the voiceless throughout his short but important career.Read More »

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