Cairo Station

Out of pity for the lame-footed Kinawi, who came from the village to work and spent the night on the street, the owner of the store at the station hires him as a seller of press for passing passengers and even gives the poor man a closet. Impressed by the increase in his status, as well as photos of women in magazines, Kinawi is striving for a romantic relationship, however, all women only dismiss him.

Kinavi falls in love with the beauty seller of refreshments, Hanuma, who seems to be flirting with him, not paying attention that she is engaged to Abu Siri, an informal leader of station porters trying to organize them into a union to improve wages. Kinavi makes her an offer, but the girl breaks his dreams of family and children.

Kinawi's obsessed love turns into hatred. Inspired by a newspaper article on unsolved murders, he buys a knife. A suitable case is presented to him when the police start a raid on merchants without a license, and Hanuma asks the former admirer to hide her basket with drinks in the station warehouse. Kinavi is waiting for her there, but Hanuma does not come to get the basket herself, but asks her friend about it. Not noticing the difference in the darkness of the warehouse, Kinawi stabbed a woman several times, drags the body into a large box and even manages to trick Abu Siri into loading him onto the train.

However, the woman is alive. They find her and panic rises at the station. Opponents of Abu Siri who find it unprofitable to organize a union try to blame the porter for the murder, but he reveals the real culprit. Kinavi want to arrest, but he notices Khanuma (who did not know about the incident), catches up with her, grabs and puts a knife to her throat to keep the crowd.

The owner of Madbuli’s store, who had previously benefited him, speaks with Kinavi in ​​order to calm him down and convinces the nearby simpleton that they will get married with Hanuma now, just wear a wedding suit. Overjoyed, Kinawi dresses up in the proposed clothes, only then realizing that he put on a straitjacket . He resists, but he is taken away.

• Producer:
• Director: Yousef Shahin
• Assistant directors: M. Abu-Youssef, M. Gamal al-Din
• Script writers: Mohammed Abu Youssef,
• Operator: Alvise Orfanelli
• Composer: ; The film also used the music of Miklos rye .

The film was included in the main competition program and nominated for the Golden Bear of the 8th Berlin International Film Festival ^{[4] [5] [6]} .

In addition, in 1958, “Cairo Station” was the first of the films selected for an application from Egypt for an Oscar for the best film in a foreign language ^[7] , but did not reach the shortlisted nomination.

In 2013, based on the opinions of 500 influential film critics, writers and art critics, the organizing committee of the compiled and published a list of the 100 greatest Arabian films of all time, where Cairo Station took second place, immediately after heading the list of the movie (1970) directed by . Three films from the list (two of the aforementioned and West Beirut by Ziad Duiri, 1998) were awarded a retrospective screening under the auspices of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of the USA “Classics of Arabian Cinema” ^{[8] [9]} .

• Cairo Station on the Internet Movie Database
• Jason Buchanan. Cairo Station (1958) Allmovie . Date of appeal October 15, 2015.
• Lloyd Chesley UCLA Archive Retrospective Celebrates Chahine's Work . Los Angeles Times (October 21, 1999). Date of appeal October 15, 2015.
• Evelyn Bender. YOUSSEF CHAHINE (Yusef Shahin) Egyptian director, 1926— // Censorship: A World Encyclopedia / Derek Jones (Ed.). - Routledge, 2015 .-- P. 438-439. - ISBN 9781136798641 .
• Malek Khouri. The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema. - American University in Cairo Press. - P. 28-29. - ISBN 9789774163548 .
• Patrick Heenan. Bab el Hadid . International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers, The Gale Group (2001). Date of appeal October 16, 2015.

Reviews

• Jamie Russell. Cairo Station (1958) BBC (10 June 2002). Date of appeal October 15, 2015.  
• Peter Bradshaw . Cairo Station The Guardian (12 June 2002). Date of appeal October 15, 2015.  
• . Cairo Station (DVD ) . (September 11, 2010). Date of treatment October 15, 2015. Archived March 26, 2012.  
• Joel Gordon. Broken Heart of the City: Youssef Chahine's Bab al-Hadid (Cairo Station) : [ eng. ] // Journal for Cultural Research. - April-July 2012. - Vol. 16, no. 2-3.
• David Parkinson. Cairo Station: A story of workers' rights, disability and love . Empire (March 18, 2013). Date of appeal October 15, 2015.  
• Jonathan Rosenbaum . Cairo Station (March 18, 2013). Date of appeal October 15, 2015.
• Trevor Johnston. Cairo Station Time Out (London) (March 18, 2013). Date of appeal October 15, 2015.
• . This was Chahine's break-through film, one that was popular in Egypt and also put him on the international map for directors . (June 26, 2013). Date of appeal October 15, 2015.
• Jon Fortgang Cairo Station . Date of appeal October 15, 2015.
• Cairo Station [Bab El Hadid ] . Arab Film Distribution. Date of treatment October 17, 2015.
• David Sterritt. Cairo Station Turner Classic Movies . Date of appeal October 15, 2015.