EGYPT: Harb Atalia (Italian War). 2005

Director: Ahmed Saleh
Stars: Ahmed el-Sakka, Khaled Abol Naga, Nelly Karim, Khaled Saleh, Razan Maghraby.
Release date: Egypt - 27 July 2005
Length: 110 mins

El Sakka returns again with another action film, though this one contains comedy & romance. The Egyptians seemed to have loved it, because it managed to earn 2 million EGP over it's 10 million budget after only 2 months. Then it will be seen in the other Arabic speaking countries. It was released in Australia for a limited timelast year, but if you aren't scanning the papers or in the Arabic community, it would've been easily missed. Good to see Arabic cinema creating it's own multiplex type films. Loving it.

Synopsis
Ahmed El-Sakka (Tito) plays the role of an honest and idealistic man who struggles against a corrupt world — a theme popularized in the 1980s by actors such as Adel Imam, Nour El-Sherif and Ahmed Zaki.

Yasine (El-Sakka) is a recent law graduate who interns at a firm in Cairo. He discovers that his boss Kamal (Saleh) and his partner Bakr (Kamel) are involved with the mob. When Yasine advises them to stay on the right side of the law, his boss fires him and makes sure that he can’t land another job in the field. Desperate, Yasine devises a scheme to get back at them. He discovers the whereabouts of Kamal and Bakr’s new transaction, and manages to flee with a bag full of money and stolen antiquities. Matters become complicated when Yasine’s boss and his accomplice move to Italy, where the protagonist and his girlfriend (Nelly Karim) face new adventures.

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