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The Asphalt Kings

5.8(4)19962h 0m1

A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.

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Status
Released
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Language
Arabic

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Director

Osama Fawzy

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Egypt

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical (limited)R27 Mar 1996
  • EgyptEG

    • Theatrical8 Jul 1996
  • SwitzerlandCH

    • PremiereSource: IMDB (Locarno Film Festival)11 Aug 1996

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The Asphalt Kings was released on 27 March 1996.

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