This article is about the 1958 film. For Cairo's main train station, see Ramses Station.
Cairo Station
Film poster
باب الحديد
Directed by
Youssef Chahine
Written by
Mohamed Abu Youssef
Abdel Hay Adib
Produced by
Gabriel Talhami
Starring
Farid Shawqi
Hind Rostom
Cinematography
Alevise Orfanelli
Edited by
Kamal Abul Ela
Music by
Fouad El Zahiri
Release date
20 January 1958 (1958-01-20)
Running time
77 minutes
Country
Egypt
Language
Egyptian Arabic
Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديدBāb 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]
^"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.
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