Date Wine

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Release date: June 23, 1998
Duration: 108 minutes
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Overview

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.

Starring

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Sherihan
Salma
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Abla Kamel
Salima
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Mohamed Nagaty
Ahmed Mustafa Ismail
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Manal Afifi
Shifa
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Hamdy Ahmed
Mute Grandpa