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From world-renowned Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine (Destiny, Alexandria…Why?), The Other is a delirious love story between Adam (Hani Salama), the son of a corrupt, domineering female industrialist, and Hanane, a beautiful but impoverished newspaper reporter.
Unfortunately, Adam’s mother Margaret (Nabila Ebeid) is possessive to the point of violence and will stop at nothing to get rid of Hanane. In her efforts to control her son, Margaret bribes her daughter-in-law’s brother, a fanatical thug who belongs to a fundamentalist terrorist cult, to lure Hanane into a deadly trap.
Among the passionate embraces, extravagant musical numbers and a stirring version of a harmonious, multi-cultural Middle East, Chahine unravels the connections among naked greed, corrupt power, Western "globalization," and religious fanaticism.
(*Previously Distributed by Image Entertainment)
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"Youssef Chahine, Egypt’s prince of political pop, offers his fans a sweeping melodrama with a startlingly ecumenical vision." – Jim Hoberman, The Village Voice
"A potpurri held together by (Chahine's) bravura style…and by (Nabila) Ebeid's extraordinary performance…at times eerily reminiscent of Callas in Pasolini's Medea." - Time Out New York
"The Other folds heavy-breathing passion, cyber-fantasy and gaudy musical numbers into a romantic melodrama that is much more politically savvy than it might appear on the surface." – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
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