Five years after the success of the feature film Cairo Confidential, Tariq Saleh returns with an exciting and hard-hitting thriller set in the heart of the Egyptian capital. its title? The Cairo Conspiracy.
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Coming to theaters in 2022, this fascinating 120-minute feature film tells the story of a student caught up in a politico-religious power struggle at his Al-Azhar University. After the death of a Sunni Islamic leader, he suddenly finds himself hired by Egypt’s secret services to spy on fellow soldiers.
Starring Taufik Barhom (who recently starred in Jonathan Millett’s thriller Les Fantômes), as well as Fares Fares (who is none other than the film’s main character. Cairo Confidential).
A fascinating and exciting thriller
If The Cairo Conspiracy It didn’t really have the expected effect at the national box office (only 520,936 viewers in the cinema), but it enjoyed great success at festivals.
It was notably nominated for the César in the category “Best Foreign Film”, the Lumières de la presse française as “Best International Co-Production”, but above all, it won the Screenplay Prize at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival Award for the director, who had already proven himself with Cairo Confidential .
today, The Cairo Conspiracy Many consider it a fabulous political and spiritual thriller. Proof AlloCiné rated by internet users: 3.9 out of 5. On the press side, journalists gave it a respectable average of 3.8 out of 5, including five stars from L’Humanité, LCI, Le Parisien, Marianne and Western France.
However, he did not win anything in advance Tariq Saleh. The filmmaker was forced to shoot a feature film in Turkey because he was banned from entering Egypt (since his film was released in 2015, he has been on the blacklist of the country’s security services).
“To represent Al-Azhar, we were able to film in the Suleymaniye Mosque in Istanbul, a magnificent 16th-century building whose master builder Sinan trained as the architect of the Blue Mosque.The director explains. Therefore, it is a delicate project.
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Source: Allocine
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