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.