The Aquarium (2008)
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
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