MERCEDES (Egypte, 1993)


35 mm - Couleur – 103’
Direction: Yousry Nasrallah

Synopsis

Cairo, 1990. Noubi, the son of an important Coptic family, leaves the psychiatric hospital where his mother had had him committed. Declaring himself a Communist, he wanted to give his inheritance to the Party. On his return among the Egyptian Jet-Set, he is responsible for finding his cousin, Gamal, who has left without a forwarding address. This search will take him into a new, motley universe, full of offbeat personalities.