
The Land / El Ard
- Release Date: 1969
- Type: Featured
- Run time: 130 Minutes
- Directed by: Youssef Chahine
- Produced by: Al Mouasasa Al Misriya Lel Cinema
- Screenplay: Hassan Fouad
- Cast: Mahmoud El Meliguy, Nagwa Ibrahim, Hamdy Ahmed, Tawfik El Dekn, Salah El Saadny, Yehia Chahine
- Cinematography: Abdel Halim Nasr
- Art direction: Salah Gaber
- Editing: Rashida Abdel Salam
- Music: Ali Ismail, Nasry Abdel Noor
- Sound: Hassan Al Touni
- Subtitles: English, French
- Scenario: Hassan Fouad
Synopsis:
One of Chahine’s most enduring classics, the Land details the struggle of a group of peasant farmers in the 1930s to protect their fields and their livelihood against a corrupt pasha interested only in self – aggrandizement. Adapted by Chahine from a novel published shortly after the abolition of monarchy by Egypt’s 1952 revolution, the Land offers a full blooded narrative of political struggle and sweeping nationalist emotions and is a rallying cry for an Arab world demoralised by Israeli expansion in the 1960’s. HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE