Cairo Station
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Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian crime-drama film directed by Youssef Chahine,[1] written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and Abdel Hay Adib, and starring Farid Shawqi and Hind Rostom. The plot follows a newspaper salesman's dangerous obsession with a pretty young refreshments seller amidst a serial killer's spree through Cairo.
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Directed by | Youssef Chahine |
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Produced by | Gabriel Talhami |
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Cinematography | Alevise Orfanelli |
Edited by | Kamal Abul Ela |
Music by | Fouad El Zahiri |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
Country | Egypt |
Language | Egyptian Arabic |
Submitted for competition in the 8th Berlin International Film Festival,[2] it was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3] Since the 1970s, the film has found renewed interest with new generations of international film lovers and has been hailed as a masterpiece in the style of neorealist cinema.[4]