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6.3It is the story of two friends, one a Muslim, Sheik Metwalli, and the other a Coptic Christian, Barsoum, both unemployed, suffering from hunger, and competing for a job in a bank. When the bank’s director mistakes them for wealthy businessmen, he takes them to his home for a lavish lunch. But upon learning their actual status, he chases them out of the house. At the film’s conclusion, as the two friends rest on the sidewalk absorbing their long-overdue meal, they are arrested by a policeman.
Barsoum Looking for a Job
1923
Directed by Bonvelli, based on the British play Charley's Aunt.
The American Aunt
1920
5.5The film revolves around the character of Lord Carnarvon and his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, in addition to his discovery of many Pharaonic antiquities in the deserts of Upper Egypt and in the Valley of the Kings.
Fi Bilad Tutankhamun
1923
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1920s · 2 titles
6.3It is the story of two friends, one a Muslim, Sheik Metwalli, and the other a Coptic Christian, Barsoum, both unemployed, suffering from hunger, and competing for a job in a bank. When the bank’s director mistakes them for wealthy businessmen, he takes them to his home for a lavish lunch. But upon learning their actual status, he chases them out of the house. At the film’s conclusion, as the two friends rest on the sidewalk absorbing their long-overdue meal, they are arrested by a policeman.
Barsoum Looking for a Job
1923
5.5The film revolves around the character of Lord Carnarvon and his discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, in addition to his discovery of many Pharaonic antiquities in the deserts of Upper Egypt and in the Valley of the Kings.
Fi Bilad Tutankhamun
1923