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WEDA'AN YA BONAPARTE (1985) | [aka... الوداع يا بونابرت - Adieu Bonaparte (France)] |
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Written by:
Yousry Nasrallah Humbert Balsan Jean Pierre-Mahot
Original Music by:
Lyric International Renn productions TF1 films productions |
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In 1798, Napoleon lands his army in Egypt, defeats the Mameluke warlords (the remnants of Ottoman rule), and goes on to Cairo. Three brothers, who are Egyptian patriots, chafe under Mameluke rule and reject the prospect of French domination. Bakr, the eldest, is a hothead, quick to advocate armed rebellion; Ali is more philosophical and poetic; Yehia is young and impressionable. One of Napoleon's generals, the one-legged intellectual Caffarelli, wants to make Frenchmen out of Ali, Yehia, and other Egyptians, opening a bakery where their father works, becoming a tutor, and declaring his love for them. Is tragedy the only resolution of these conflicting loyalties? "olo hatefdal ghalya alaya...masr hatefdal ghalya alaya" |
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| CAST & CHARACTERS | |
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Michel Piccoli |
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. "The film relates the experiences of an Egyptian family during the occupation of Alexandria by Napoleon and his army, and the uneasy friendship between a young Egyptian poet and one of Bonaparte's advisers. The exigencies of a big budget co-production might have accounted for a diminution in the great Chanihe's poetry and power, but there are some spectacular scenes and excellent performances, notably from [Patrice] Chereau as a fanatical Bonaparte." - The Faber Companion to Foreign Films. |
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Egypt/France - 115 min - 35MM - Color - stereo |
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