Date Wine

(1999)

★ 6.8 IMDb · 14 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1999

Runtime: 108 мин

Country: Egypt

Director: Radwan El Kashef

Cast: Sherihan, Abla Kamel, محمد نجاتي, Manal Afifi, Hamdy Ahmed, Fayza Amasaib, Gamal Ismail, سيف عبد الرحمن, Madiha ElSayed, لبنى محمود

Plot

Set in a mythical small Upper-Egyptian village where people live off planting dates and making of Date Wine, a stranger arrives and calls on people to travel to the abroad for job opportunities, all of the village's grown-up men leave, except for the disabled grandfather and his grandson Ahmed, upon which trouble begins to spread in the village in the absence of men along with his lover Salma. Exploring themes of Rebellion, Desire, Masculinity, Patriarchy, Spirituality and the Ancient Egyptian Mystique.