Cairo Station

Cairo Station, also called The Iron Gate (Arabic: باب الحديد Bāb al-Ḥadīd), is a 1958 Egyptian crime-drama film directed by Youssef Chahine, 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.

Cairo Station
Film poster
باب الحديد
Directed byYoussef Chahine
Written by
  • Mohamed Abu Youssef
  • Abdel Hay Adib
Produced byGabriel Talhami
Starring
CinematographyAlevise Orfanelli
Edited byKamal Abul Ela
Music byFouad El Zahiri
Release date
  • 20 January 1958 (1958-01-20)
Running time
77 minutes
CountryEgypt
LanguageEgyptian Arabic

Submitted for competition in the 8th Berlin International Film Festival, 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. 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.

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