Cinematheque: In Memory of Youssef Chahine

An adaptation of Abdel Rahman al-Sharqawi's anti-royalist novel by the same title, The Land is an epic about the 1930s struggle between starving peasants and a corrupt Pasha. Intensely moving and strongly nationalist, Chahine's 1969 film was recently named the best Egyptian film of all time in a poll of the nation's critics. New print!