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Bird Of The Orient, is a 1986 Egyptian movie, directed by Youssef Francis, and starring Nour El-Sherif, Soad Hosny, Elizabeth Guard. with a runtime of 100 minutes.
Bird of the Orient is an Egyptian drama film starring Nour El-Sherif in a story that consciously echoes the experiences of renowned Egyptian writer Tawfiq Al-Hakim as depicted in his landmark novel A Bird from the East. A young public prosecutor travels to Paris, only to find that the city in the 1980s is a far cry from the romantic Paris Al-Hakim described in the 1920s — yet history partly repeats itself when the protagonist falls for a woman romantically linked to a colleague and abandons her. In a parallel narrative thread drawn from Al-Hakim's Diary of a Country Prosecutor, the same young man is transferred to a rural Egyptian district to investigate a murder case. The film is a layered meditation on literary heritage, cultural identity, and the recurring patterns of human experience.
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