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After the battle ( Egypt 2012 )

Color: Fiction, color, 122’

Direction: Yousry Nasrallah

Screenplay: Omar Shamma- Yousry Nasrallah

Director of Photography: Samir Bahsan

Sound: Ibrahim Dessouky

Music: Ibrahim Dessouky

Editing: Mona Rabi

Cast: Menna Shalaby, Bassem Samra, Nahed El Sebaï, Salah Abdallah, Phaedra, Abdallah Momen Medhat

Production: Production: Siécle Productions- Studio 37- New Century

Synopsis

Mahmoud was one of the horsemen coerced by lowly henchmen for Mubarak’s regime into carrying out attacks on protesters in Tahrir Square on February 2, 2011. He has since lost his job. Humiliated and ostracized, he lives near the Pyramids with his wife and sons.
 His family is on the brink of despair when he meets Reem, a secular Egyptian womanwho works in advertising. She is a fervent revolutionary who lives in a wealthy Cairo neighborhood. Theirs is the encounter of two people, but also of

Réalisateur

Born in Cairo, Yusry Nasrallah studied economic and political science at Cairo University. He worked as a film critic. He began his carreer as assistant to Wolker Schlöndorff on the film Circle of Deceit (1981). He also worked with the famous egyptian director Youssef Chahine. His films include Summer thefts (1988), Mercedes (1993), The gate of sun (2004), Scheherazade, tell me a story (2009).