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Uniform Title Bab el-Hadid (Motion picture)
Title Cairo station = Bab el-Hadid / Gabriel Talhami presents ; screen play, Abdel Hay Adib ; dialogue, Mohamad Abou Youssef ; produced by Gabriel Talhami ; directed by Youssef Chahine.

Publication Info. [New York, NY] : The Criterion Collection, [2025]
©2025

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult New Materials Main Level  DVD FOREIGN FILM CAIRO    Check Shelf
Edition DVD special edition.
Description 1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Physical Medium 4 3/4 in.
monochrome rdacc
Description auditory closedCaptions sapdv
digital rdatr
optical rdarm
mono rdacpc
1.37:1
full screen rdaar
NTSC rdabs
video file rdaft
DVD video
region 1 rdare
Motion pictures lcgft
Series The Criterion collection ; 1273
Criterion collection ; 1273.
System Details DVD; NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.37:1); monaural.
Language Arabic dialogue; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing (SDH).
Note English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
Cast Farid Chawqi, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine.
Credits Editor, Kamal Abul Ela ; music score, Fouad El Zahiry ; director of photography, Alvise.
Note Originally released as a motion picture in 1958.
Full screen (1.37:1).
Summary A newspaper salesman at the train station in Cairo develops an unhealthy obsession with a woman who sells refreshments.
Note Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new 2K digital restoration of Cairo as Seen by Chahine (1991), a short documentary by Yousef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim; new interview with Fahim; Chahine. . .Why? (2009), a documentary on the director and Cairo Station; excerpt from Chahine's appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival ; an essay by Fahim.
Subject Unrequited love -- Drama.
Working poor -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Drama.
Railroad stations -- Egypt -- Cairo -- Drama.
Cairo (Egypt) -- Drama.
Genre/Form Motion pictures, Arabic.
Film noir.
Crime films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Added Author Shāhīn, Yūsuf, film director, actor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdRCtVkjppf336VhFPmh3
Adīb, ʻAbd al-Ḥayy, screenwriter. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJcGqq73rMwH4pJdXHyw4q
Youssef, Mohamad Abou, screenwriter.
Talḥamī, Jibrāʼīl, presenter, film producer. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCjtJHcVddgtBmHwtXtXG9C
Shawqī, Farīd, 1920-1998, actor. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJv8KrDkwPrxVR4QPDY773
Rostom, Hind, actor.
Criterion Collection (Firm), publisher.
Added Title Bab el-Hadid
ISBN 9798886073171
Standard No. 715515317610
Music No. CC3714D The Criterion Collection
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