Ahmed Helmi Menna Shalabi Mahmoud Hamida Dalal Abdel Aziz
Cinematography
Ahmad Yusuf
Music by
Amr Ismail
Production company
Brothers United for Cinema
Distributed by
Brothers United for Cinema
Release date
16 July 2008 (2008-07-16)
Running time
115 minutes
Country
Egypt
Language
Arabic
Box office
E£15 million
Sorry to Disturb (Arabic: اسف على الإزعاج, romanized: ʾāsifun ʿalā l-ʾizʿāji) is a 2008 Egyptian film directed by Khaled Marei. It stars Ahmed Helmi as a young aviation engineer who feels lonely, out of place, and depressed. One day he meets a beautiful girl at a café (Menna Shalabi), and starts dating her. His life is turned upside down, as he learns that he has schizophrenia, and that he has been having visual hallucinations of his late father and his girlfriend.[1]
Sorry to Disturb was one of the two highest-grossing films in Egypt of 2008, earning over E£15 million.[2] The film won first prize at the Egyptian National film festival[3] and won the Dear Guest magazine award for best movie of 2008.[4] Helmi won the Egyptian Catholic Center Cinema Festival award for Best Actor for the third year running,[5] and the film won Best Film, Best Director, Best Script, and Best Production.[6]
The soundtrack includes "Don't Speak" by No Doubt and "Buddha Bar" by Wally Brill.
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^فيلم اسف على الإزعاج يقتنص الجائزة الأولى. Panet (in Arabic). 3 May 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
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^"Pack of cards". Al-Ahram Weekly. 5–11 March 2009. Archived from the original on 25 July 2009. Retrieved 2009-07-06.
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