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The Aquarium
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Title: The Aquarium

Release Date: 8 Feb 2008

Runtime: 1h 46m

Genre: Drama

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Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.7 (11 votes)

Cast

  • Laila: Hend Sabry
  • Youssef: Amr Waked
  • Youssef's Father: Gamil Ratib
  • Marguerite: Samah Anwar
  • Zakki: Bassem Samra
  • Marwa: Dorra
  • Amr: Ahmed Al Fishawy
  • : Asser Yassin
  • : Laila Samy
  • : Yara Goubran
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