The Youssef Chahine Podcast: Al-mummia/ The Night Of Counting The Years With Music (1)

At the request of our listeners, we are expanding the podcast onto other instances of Egyptian cinema. We saw Shadi Abdel Salam's Al-mummia/ The Night of Counting The Years in the wonderful version restored with the help of Martin Scorsese and the Cineteca di Bologna. It's a truly great film: poetic, allegorical, about the past and the nation, people robbed, robbing others, robbing themselves, stealing their own past and rescuing it. But not without a cost. A very beautiful film that I'm sure will reward further viewing. Much of this podcast is a combination of appreciation and queries about what we don't yet understand.