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The Asphalt Kings (1996)

The Asphalt Kings (1996)

Action Drama Thriller
Release Date: 1996, March 27
Directors: Osama Fawzy
Countries: Egypt
Production: Aflam Guirguiss Fawzy
Cast: Gamil Ratib, Lotfy Labib, Mohammed Tawfik, Maged El Kedwany, Mahmoud Hemida, Shaaban Abdel Rahim, Hassan Hosny, Mohamed Sharaf, Aida Abdel Aziz, Abdullah Mahmoud, Salwa Khattab, Amal Ibrahim

Overview:

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.