Shams El Zanaty

During the Second World War a tribal chief goes to Cairo to buy weapons. He is looking for help to protect his oasis from the pressure of Marshal Bar’i and seeks out a man called Shams El Zanaty, who agrees to gather a group from among his acquaintances and go to the oasis. The party that assembles is made up of men with nothing in common, each with his own reasons for coming, and once they reach the oasis they have both to prepare the villagers to fight and to get past the mistrust among themselves. Samir Seif’s hundred and thirty minute Egyptian film sets that assembled crew structure in the geography of the desert. Adel Emam and Mahmoud Hemida take the leads, with Sawsan Badr and Mahmoud El Gendy in the cast. It was completed in 1991.