The Yacoubian Building

Movie • 2006 • Drama  

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Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts.
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There are no dogs in the film.
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There are no animals in the film and no harm is intimated to come to any animal onscreen or off.
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There is one brief scene of vomiting with no detail shown.
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It is intimated in one scene that a boy has been sexually abused by a male family servant.
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