| Cairo Station | |
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 Film poster | |
| باب الحديد | |
| Directed by | Youssef Chahine |
| Written by |
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| Produced by | Gabriel Talhami |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Alevise Orfanelli |
| Edited by | Kamal Abul Ela |
| Music by | Fouad El Zahiri |
Release date |
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Running time | 77 minutes |
| Country | United Arab Republic[a] |
| Language | Egyptian Arabic |
Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian crime-drama film directed by Youssef Chahine,[1] written by Mohamed Abu Youssef and Abdel Hay Adib, and starring Farid Shawqi and Hind Rostom. The plot follows a newspaper salesman's dangerous obsession with a pretty young refreshments seller amidst a serial killer's spree through Cairo.
Submitted for competition in the 8th Berlin International Film Festival,[2] it was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 31st Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.[3] Since the 1970s, the film has found renewed interest with new generations of international film lovers and has been hailed as a masterpiece in the style of neorealist cinema.[4]
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- ^ "Bab el Hadid". International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers. Retrieved 18 July 2015.
- ^ "IMDB.com: Awards for The Iron Gate". imdb.com. Retrieved 31 December 2009.
- ^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
- ^ "BBC - Films - review - Cairo Station". www.bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 22 June 2020.