The Aquarium

(2008)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 12 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 2008

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: Germany, Egypt

Director: Yousry Nasrallah

Cast: هند صبري, Амр Вакед, Gamil Ratib, Samah Anwar, باسم سمرة, Dorra, Ahmed Al Fishawy, آسر ياسين, ليلى سامي, Yara Goubran

Plot

Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.