Choubra, quartier cosmopolite du Caire. Hatem, policier véreux, tient le quartier d’une main de fer. Tous les habitants le craignent et le détestent. Seule Nour, jeune femme dont il convoite les faveurs, ose lui tenir tête. Mais Nour est secrètement amoureuse de Cherif, brillant et intègre substitut du procureur. Fou de jalousie, Hatem s’interpose.

Il la harcèle et transforme sa vie en enfer. Un amour contrarié dans un climat de violence sociale et d’oppression policière.



France/Egypte, 2007, 2h02 couleurs vo



Durée : 124′

Genre : fiction LM

Thèmes : société, corruption, Egypte

Année de production : 2007

Visa : 116.661

Format Image : 1.85

Format son : DOLBY SRD

Année : 2007 

Pays : France, Egypte



Réalisateur : Youssef CHAHINE, Khaled YOUSSEF



avec

Khaled Saleh (HATEM)

Mena Shalaby (NOUR)

Youssef El Sherif (CHERIF)

Hala Fakher (BAHIA)

Hala Sedky (WEDAD)







TITRE ORIGINAL : HEYA FAWDA



Réalisateur : Youssef CHAHINE, Khaled YOUSSEF

Scénario : Nasser Abdel Rahman

Directeur de production : Maged Youssef

Cadreur : Tamer Joseph

Ingénieur son : Mostafa Aly

Montage : Ghada Ezzdine

Mixage : Dominique Hennequin

Directeur de la photographie : Ramsis Marzouk



Production

Misr International Films (Egypte)

3B Productions (France)



Coproduction

France 2 Cinéma



Avec la participation de

Canal Plus

CNC



Et le soutien du Fonds Francophone de Production Audiovisuelle du Sud, Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie – OIF



Ventes Internationales

Pyramide International







2007 | Mostra de Venise | VENISE, Italie

> Compétition Officielle



2007 | Festival International de Toronto | TORONTO, Canada

> Sélection

Hatem (Khaled Saleh) rules over Cairo’s Choubra district with an iron fist, a whipping rod and a complete disregard for the law. He may be a police officer, but that never stops him from abusing the prisoners in his cells. Nor does it inhibit his lust. Whenever he can, Hatem spies on his lovely young neighbour, Nour, as she bathes.

But Nour has fallen under the spell of Chérif, an upstanding prosecutor whose headmistress mother dotes on him, even though he is wasting his time with an alarmingly sexy girlfriend. As the circle of desire spirals tighter, Hatem grows bolder and more frantic. Desperate to have Nour for himself, he bends and then breaks the law to get what he wants.

Saleh plays the bald-headed, grasping Hatem with the energy of a man possessed by a thousand different impulses, none of them good. When he sneaks into Nour’s room, he drives himself into an erotic frenzy simply by smelling her robe and rummaging through her photos. At the same time, this lovestruck loser – if love is what it is – can switch to heartless brutality in an instant. Torturing prisoners has become so routine that he can chat on his mobile phone as he does it.




Country: Egypt/France
Year: 2007
Language: Arabic
Runtime: 123 minutes
Format: Colour/35mm

Cast & Crew

Production Company: MISR International Films/3B Productions
Producer: Gabriel Khoury
Screenplay: Nasser Abdel Rahman
Cinematographer: Ramsis Marzouk
Editor: Ghada Ezzdine
Production Designer: Hamed Hemdan
Sound: Mostafa Aly
Music: Yasser Abdel Rahman
Principal Cast: Khaled Saleh, Mena Shalaby, Hala Sedky, Youssef El Chérif, Hala Fakher


FESTIVALS

2008 | IFFR 2008 – 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam | ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands | www.filmfestivalrotterdam.com |
> Selection – Kings & Aces

2007 | Continent Afrique | PAU, France |
> Sélection