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Juha Governs the City, is a 1985 Egyptian movie, directed by Shaker Khodair, and starring Samir Ghanem, Esaad Younes, Ahmad Rateb. with a runtime of 188 minutes.
Juha Governs the City is an Egyptian fantasy comedy film that resurrects the legendary folk figure Juha and his faithful donkey, who have been buried underground since the Abbasid era. They are accidentally unearthed during excavation work for a new metro line, bursting back into the modern world to the complete bewilderment of workers and officials alike. A hasty emergency meeting of city authorities is called to determine what to do with this impossible visitor from the distant past. The film uses Juha's famous wit and timeless wisdom as a comic mirror held up to contemporary bureaucracy, pomposity, and social absurdity, generating humor from the collision of ancient folk philosophy with modern Cairo.
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