The Days of Sadat

Days of Sadat
Days of Sadat
	DVD cover
Directed by	Mohamed Khan
Written by	Ahmed Bahgat
Produced by	Ahmad Zaki
Starring	Ahmad Zaki; Mervat Amin; Mona Zaki
Cinematography	Tarek El-Telmissany
Edited by	Khaled Merhi; Nadia Shoukry
Music by	Yasser Abdel-Rahman
Release date	26 June 2001;
Running time	165 minutes
Country	Egypt
Language	Egyptian Arabic
Budget	£E 6,000,000

Days of Sadat (Egyptian Arabic: أيام السادات) is a 2001 Egyptian biographical film about the third President of Egypt Anwar Al Sadat. The film features Ahmad Zaki as the Egyptian president. Cast includes Mervat Amin, Mona Zaki and Ahmed El Sakka. The film captured intimate details about the president in great accuracy. One notable characteristic of Sadat was his speech pattern, which Ahmad Zaki captured strongly in his performance.

Cast

Ahmad Zaki as President Anwar Sadat
Mona Zaki as the young Jehan Al Sadat
Mervat Amin as First Lady Jehan Al Sadat
Ahmed El Sakka as Atef El Sadat, the president's brother
Mohamed El Kholi as President Gamal Abdel Nasser

Reception

When the movie was released in 2001, it attracted a huge following in Egypt, ranking as one of Egypt's highest-grossing movies. This was Zaki's second biographical movie, following Nasser 56.^[1]

Director Mohamed Khan received high praise for his directing of the movie. However, some critics^[who?] claimed that the movie was a bit too biased, since it only focused on the writings of Sadat himself from his book, In Search of an Identity.

References

^ Joel Gordon (2002). "Days of Anxiety/Days of Sadat: Impersonating Egypt's Flawed Hero on the Egyptian Screen". Journal of Film and Video. 54 (2–3): 27–42. JSTOR 20688378.

External links

Ayam El Sadat at IMDb

Ayyam Saddat [1] at ShooFeeTV

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[1] Joel Gordon (2002). "Days of Anxiety/Days of Sadat: Impersonating Egypt's Flawed Hero on the Egyptian Screen". Journal of Film and Video. 54 (2–3): 27–42. JSTOR 20688378.

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