Add/Update Information: Movie - El Avocato - 1984


    Basic Details

    Title الأفوكاتو
    Title in English The Advocate
    Title's Translation El Avocato
    Original Title
    Release Year 1984
    Runtime 108
    Category Movie
    Subcategory
    Status Released
    Is this a coloured title? Yes
    Egyptian Censorship All Ages
    MPAA Censorship
    Movie Budget 0
    Poster
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    Release Date
    23 January 1984 Egypt true
    Genre
    Drama
    Comedy
    Thriller
    Country
    Egypt
    Language
    Arabic
    Filming Locations
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    Cast

    Section Actor

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Adel Emam 1
    2) Yousra 2
    3) Esaad Younes 3
    4) Hussien El Sherbiny 4
    5) Mohamed El Sharqawy 5
    6) Salah Nazmi 6
    7) Ali Al Sharif 7
    8) Youssef Eid 8
    9) Hamdy Youssef 9
    10) Mahmoud Abu Jalila 10
    11) Hagag Abdel Azim 11
    12) Sami Attaiah 12
    13) Rashwan Mustafa 13
    14) Nabaweya Saaid 14
    15) Ehab Khalil 21
    16) Mohamed Dardeery 22
    17) Saeed Adas 23
    18) Mustafa Kamal 24
    19) Sayed Mustafa 25
    20) Zayed Fouad 26

    Section Art Director

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Nihad Bahgat 1
    2) Ghassan Salem 2
    3) Al-Ahram Studios 6
    4) El Desouqy Mahmoud 7
    5) Gaber Hassan 8

    Section Producer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Raafat El Mehi Producer 6
    2) Adel Elmehy Producer 7
    3) Ayman Al Arab Producer 8
    4) Ghattas Katla Producer 9
    5) Studio 13 Producer 10

    Section Editor

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Saeed El Sheikh 1
    2) Maha Roshdy 5
    3) Adel El Shaikh 6
    4) Kamal Fahmy 7

    Section Director

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Raafat El Mehi Director 1
    2) Yousef Abu Saif 2
    3) Hussein Omar 5
    4) Mohammad Al Kilany 6

    Section Makeup Artist

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) AbdelWahhab Qotb 1
    2) Ismael Abdel Hamid 4
    3) Talaat Ahmed 5

    Section Laboratory

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Cinema City Laboratories (Cinema City) 1
    2) Saad Abdel Rahman 2
    3) Maged Moussa 4

    Section Sound Engineer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Gamil Aziz 1
    2) Abdulaziz Emara 2
    3) Mostafa Kaeml 4

    Section Cinematographer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Maher Rady Director of Photography 1
    2) Samir Bahzan 3

    Section Writer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Raafat El Mehi Story & Screenplay 1

    Section Music Composer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Hani Shenouda 2

    Section Casting

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Mustafa Shamis 2

    Section Distributor

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Misr International Films 2

    Section Costume Designer

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    Section Photographer

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    Section Public Relations

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    Section Other

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    Synopsis

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    Shaimaa Saied After getting sentenced with one month in prison for contempt of court, the lawyer Sbankh tries to take advantage of his jail time to establish many relations, most notably with drug dealer Hassouna,and Salim Abu Zaid, one of the centers of power in the 60s. 259
    Ahmed Refaat Hassan Sabanekh is a lawyer spending a month in prison for insulting a judge during trial. Sabanekh establishes many relationships in prison most notably with Hasouna Moharam, a rich drug dealer, enjoying the newly freed economy in Egypt's seventies and looking for a lawyer. He also meets Selim Abu Zeid once a very powerful man in Egypt's sixties and still in prison. Using or even abusing the corrupted juridical system, Sabanekh succeeds in getting Hasouna out of prison not for anything but to try to rob him later. Falling for Hasouna's tricks in the end, Sabanekh is again in prison, this time to try the same with Selim Abu Zeid. A funny lawyer trying to abuse the system but fails at the end, “El Avocato” is a panorama of Egypt's corrupted routes to earn a living and the shift it had from the sixties to the seventies. 829

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