LA CONSPIRACY OF CAIRO
Type: political-religious detective story
Director: Tarik Saleh. Starring Fares Fares, Tawfeek Barhom, Mohammad Bakri, Makram Khoury, Mehdi Dehbi, Moe Ayoub, Sewan Haji, Jawad Altawil
Fares Fares, without a turban, in Tarik Sakeh’s film
Of Egyptian family but of Swedish nationality (such as the production of the film, shot for obvious censorship reasons in Turkey), Tarik Saleh continues to delve into the dark sides of the Arab country’s power.
After Murder in Cairowhere corruption was the master at all levels, here his fetish actor (Lebanese) Fares Fares becomes an officer of the Egyptian security services.
The powerful imam of the Sunni Al Azhar University has just died political power would like to “direct” the election of whoever will succeed him, favoring those who seem more malleable to the requests of the state. To do this, the officer decides to focus on the very young pupil Adam, the son of a poor family of fishermen and therefore more open to requests and blackmail.
Thus begins the game of cat and mouse where the young university student discovers that he has fallen into a trap much bigger than him and where he will learn that in today’s Egypt the truth is a point of view and that abuse is the measure of everything.
And if a Pilates ending ends up pleasing everyone to a certain extent, the Italian spectator in front of the heads of services who imagine making those who hinder their plans disappear cannot fail to remember the tragic fate of our Regeni.
For those who want to look at Egypt from another perspective.
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