Destiny

Destiny (1997)


  • Genre: Drama, History, Music
  • Release Date: 1997-08-18
  • User Rating: 6.8/10 from 34 ratings
  • Runtime: 2h 9min
  • Language: العربية
  • Production Company: Ognon Pictures
  • Production Country: Egypt, France
  • Director: Youssef Chahine
star 6.8/10
From 34 Ratings

Summary

In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

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  • Nour El-Sherif

    as Averroes/Ibn Rushd
  • Hani Salama

    as Abdallah
  • Rogena

    as Salma
  • Layla Olwy

    as Manuella/Gypsy Woman
  • Mahmoud Hemida

    as Al Mansour, The Caliph
  • Safia ElEmary

    as Averroes' Wife/Ibn Rushd's wife
  • Mohamed Mounir

    as Marwan/Poet
  • Khaled El Nabawy

    as Nasser, The Crown Prince
  • Seif Abdelrahman

    as Caliph's Brother
  • Abdullah Mahmoud

    as Borhan
  • Ahmed Fouad Selim

    as Cheikh Riad
  • Fares Rahoma

    as Youssef
  • Ahmed Mokhtar

    as Badr
  • Sherifa Maher

    as Manuella's Mother
  • Fayeq Azab

    as Al-Razi
  • Sanaa Younes

    as Assailant's mother
  • Mohamed Ragab

    as Assailant
  • Hassan El-Adl

    as Jafar
  • Ahmed Sami Abdallah

    as
  • Maher Selim

    as
  • Ahmed Hegazi

    as
  • Magdy Idris

    as Emir of the Sect
  • Mohammad Malas

    as Assailant's Father
  • Hanaa Nassor

    as
  • Gehad Saad

    as
  • Engy Abaza

    as Sarah
  • Ameer Al Assemi

    as Saad, Assailant's brother
Directing Youssef Chahine Director
Production Hesham Soliman Production Director
Sound Yahya Al Muji Music
Production Gaby Khoury Executive Producer
Sound Kamal Al Taweel Music
Directing Khaled Youssef Co-Director
Writing Youssef Chahine Writer
Writing Khaled Youssef Writer
Camera Mohsen Nasr Director of Photography
Editing Rashida Abdel Salam Editor
Art Hamed Hemdan Art Direction
Costume & Make-Up Nahed Nasrallah Costume Design

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