Cairo Station

Synopsis

Inside the bustling, cavernous Cairo central railway station, an impoverished, lame newspaper vendor named Qinawi living in an abandoned railcar creates a bizarre pin-up collage of women from discarded magazines, developing a dangerous, psychopathic sexual obsession with Hannuma, an independent, voluptuous cold-drink peddler engaged to a handsome luggage porter union organizer. Youssef Chahine's groundbreaking Egyptian neo-realist melodrama and psychological horror milestone starring Chahine himself alongside Farid Shawqi and Hind Rostom ('the Marilyn Monroe of the East').