Cairo Station

Mar 24 2008 - 7:00pm Wilson 214

jines@wustl.edu

We are happy to announce the third film in our Middle East Film Series:
Cairo Station
(1958)
directed by Youssef Chahine
Wilson 214
Free Admission
Nancy Reynolds, assistant professor of modern Middle East history, will lead a discussion following the film.
Youssef Chahine produced and starred in this 1958 film, which is set in Cairo's main railroad station (Bab al-hadid) and uses the station's community to represent a microcosm of Egyptian society. The film follows the drama of a newspaper vendor's obsession with a beautiful lemonade seller. "A blend of sensuality and film noir, set against a backdrop of lower-depths neorealism, Cairo Station is essentially an underclass psycho-thriller" (David Chute, LA Weekly). (76 mins; feature film; Arabic with English subtitles).