Overview
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
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Setting
Set in Egypt
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Youssef ChahineWriter
- Lotfy El KholyWriter
- Original title
- العصفور
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- August 26, 1972
- Original language
- Arabic
- Countries
- Egypt, Algeria
Production
Cast
Seif AbdelrahmanRaouf
HabibaFatima
Salah QabilYoussef Fathallah
Mohsena TawfiqBaheya
Ali Al SharifSheikh Ahmed- Salah MansourIsmail
Mahmood Al-MelejiJohnny
Hamdy AhmadAuf
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Ragaa HusseinZubaida
Mahmoud QabilReyad
Hassan El Baroudy
Nazim Sharawy
Abdel Warith Assir
Muhammad Khalil- Sayed Shahat
Ahmad Bedir
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Saeed Abdel GhaniThe Journalist
Mohamed Abu Hashish
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