Date Wine (1999)

6.8/10 • 108 min • Drama

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.

Cast

Sherihan

Salma

Abla Kamel

Salima

Mohamed Nagaty

Ahmed Mustafa Ismail

Manal Afifi

Shifa

Hamdy Ahmad

Mute Grandpa

Fayza Amasaib

Grandma Zen

Gamal Ismail

Mohammed Ismail

Seif Abdelrahman

Salem

Lobna Mahmoud

Umm Salma

Kamal Soliman

Syed

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