The Unbearable Presence of Asmahan

(2014)

Genres: Documentary

Year: 2014

Runtime: 71 мин

Director: Azza El-Hassan

Plot

As times get tougher in the Arab world, people reminisce about the greatest diva of all time: Asmahan. Today, many Arabs go to Vienna in search of the dream that was whispered to them. But things are not that simple. Singer and actress Asmahan is a Syrian princess who emigrated to Egypt in the 1920s and where she enjoyed a career in show business, eventually becoming an Egyptian Diva.