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Cairo Station

باب الحديد

1958

In the teeming heart of Cairo's central train station, a lame, lonely newspaper vendor nurses a hopeless obsession with a vivacious drinks seller who is promised to another man. Youssef Chahine's electrifying, tragic drama of desire and desperation.

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