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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Although not directly shown, the film shows just before and just after a man is raped. Several scenes depict powerful men performing questionably consenual sex acts on women.
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Near the end of the film three Islamic fundamentalists assassinate a secret police chief. The gun fight results in several death, shown in very graphic style with vast amounts of blood and injury effects as bullets hit.
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A child dies of a sudden illness after being taken to hospital. The death is not shown, but the parents' reaction to the news is.
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