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Chitchat on the Nile (Arabic: ثرثرة فوق النيل) (Adrift on the Nile) is a 1971 film based on the 1966 novel Adrift on the Nile by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The film is a member in Top 100 Egyptian films list.
Adrift on the Nile (Thartharah fawqa al-Nīl, Arabic: ثرثرة فوق النيل) is a 1966 book by Egyptian author and Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The novel was later made into a 1971 film, Chitchat on the Nile. It was translated from Arabic into English in 1993 by Frances Liardet and published by Doubleday.
- Najīb Maḥfūẓ, Frances Liardet
- 1966
Nov 15, 1971 · Thartharah fawq el-Nil: Directed by Hussein Kamal. With Magda El-Khatib, Adel Adham, Ahmed Al Jaziri, Fathiya Ali. Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
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- Drama
- Hussein Kamal
- 1971-11-15
Mar 15, 2012 · Banned in Egypt upon its initial release, Kamal's drama follows a bureaucrat who becomes addicted to hashish. We wonder if he starts living in…de nile.
Chitchat on the Nile (Arabic: ثرثرة فوق النيل) (Adrift on the Nile) is a 1971 film based on the 1966 novel Adrift on the Nile by Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. The film is a member in Top 100 Egyptian films list.
Mar 18, 2016 · According to film critic Hessen Hossam, the movie answers three questions: “What’s the importance of cinema?” “What’s the big fuss about a black-and-white downer of a film?” and “How significant is a bunch of chitchat on the Nile?”
Turned out the Film Club was showing this 1971 Egyptian film that I'd never heard of before, Chitchat on the Nile, which had been banned in Egypt upon its initial release shortly after Nasser's death, as it was seen as a criticism of the Nasser government.
