The Asphalt Kings

(1996)

★ 5.8 IMDb · 4 votes

Genres: Action, Drama, Thriller

Year: 1996

Runtime: 120 мин

Country: Egypt

Director: Osama Fawzy

Cast: Mahmoud Hemida, عبدالله محمود, Salwa Khattab, Hassan Hosny, Gamil Ratib, Aida Abdel Aziz, لطفي لبيب, Mohammed Tawfik, Manal Afifi, Amal Ibrahim

Plot

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.