The Aquarium (2008)

6.8/10 106 min Drama

Overview

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.

Cast

Hend Sabry

Laila

Amr Waked

Youssef

Gamil Ratib

Youssef's Father

Samah Anwar

Marguerite

Bassem Samra

Zakki

Dorra Zarrouk

Marwa

Ahmed Al Fishawy

Amr

Asser Yassin

Laila Samy

Yara Goubran

Salwa Mohamed Ali

Tarek Mandour

Menha Batraoui

Tamim Abdo

Samir

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