
Return Of The Prodigal Son / Awdet El Ibn El Dal
- Release Date: 1976
- Type: Featured
- Run time: 120 Minutes
- Directed by: Youssef Chahine
- Produced by: Misr International Films, Oncic
- Screenplay: Youssef Chahine, Salah Jaheen, Farouk Baloufa
- Cast: Mahmoud El Meligy, Soheir El Morshedy, Shoukry Sarhan, Hoda Sultan, Raga Hussein, Said Aly Quwerat, Aly El Sherif, Magda El Roumy, Ahmed Mehrez, Hesham Selim, Ahmed Bedeir
- Cinematography: Abdel Aziz Fahmy
- Art direction: Magdi Nashed, Mohamed Nady, Mohamed Bou Gemaa
- Editing: Rachida Abdel Salam
- Costume design: Mohamed Ezzat
- Music: Abou Zeid Hassan
- Sound: Kamal Miksar
- Subtitles: English, French
Synopsis:
The story is adapted from a novel by Andre Gide and depicts a family going through a fatal crisis. Ali Madbouli, a former social activist who went on to marry the daughter of a wealthy contractor with lucrative government construction deals, returns home to his family after ten years in prison. Ali had been imprisoned for his involvement in a cost-cutting scheme having resulted in the collapse of a contracted building. But the man who returns is no longer well-loved Ali they remember.