Alexandria Again And Forever / Iskendereya Kaman We Kaman

• Release Date: 1989
• Type: Featured
• Run time: 105 Minutes
• Directed by: Youssef Chahine
• Produced by: Marianne Khoury, Humbert Balsan
• Screenplay: Youssef Chahine
• Cast: Yousra, Youssef Chahine, Hussein Fahmy, Amr Abdel Guelil, Hesham Selim, Taheya Karioka, Hoda Sultan
• Cinematography: Ramses Marzouk
• Art direction: Onsy Abou Seif
• Editing: Rachida Abdel Salam
• Costume design: Amr Khalil
• Music: Mohamed Nouh
• Sound: Olivier Chauvet, Olivier Varenne
• Subtitles: English, French

Synopsis:

The third installment in Chahine’s quartet of autobiographical films finds the director’s work stalled by a strike. During the interruption in filming, Chahine reminisces about a past relationship with one of his actors while finding himself gradually drawn to an actress. The intimacy between director and performer is depicted symbolically, in a tender dance number clearly in homage to the Hollywood musical and set on a snow – covered street in Berlin during a film festival. A masterful amalgam of realism and fantasy, Alexandria Again and Forever is Chahine’s paean to the power of imagination and the artist (Harvard Film Archive).