The Chair Carrier

Credits

Name: The Chair Carrier

Country: Ägypten

Year of publication: 2010

Format: DigiBeta

Color: color

Language : OF m. engl. UT

Duration: 11 Minuten

Direction: Khalil, Tarek

Screenplay: Khalil, Tarek

Camera: Hamid, Tarek Abdel

Editing: Tarabily, Ahmed

Sound: Shama, Sameh

Actor: Abdel-Fatah, Hassan; Idris, Magdi

Abstract

The chair carrier is the screen adaptation of the short story by Yusuf Idris about a slum dweller who meets the carrier of the Pharaoh’s throne looking for the palace. Director Tarek Khalil was only granted permission to film in 2010 because he submitted a fake script.