Mar 27, 1996
120 min
Full-HD

The Asphalt Kings (1996)

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.

Category

Action Drama Thriller

Country

Egypt

Companies

Aflam Guirguiss Fawzy

Mahmoud Hemida

Sayed

Abdullah Mahmoud

Ringo

Salwa Khattab

Inshrah

Hassan Hosny

Usta Muhammad

Gamil Ratib

Abdullah

Aida Abdel Aziz

Tafida

Lotfy Labib

Saleh

Mohammed Tawfik

Ali

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