The Sparrow(العصفور)
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Egypt, Algeria · 1972
1h 45m
Director Youssef Chahine
Starring Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Mohsena Tawfiq, Saif Abdel Rahman, Habiba
Genre Drama
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Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt--whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman--collides with a journalist investigating the heist of a state-owned factory, and the story of a village unravels.
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