🎬 Drama, History, Music

Destiny

⭐ 6.8/10 1997 2h 9m Dir. Youssef Chahine

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In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

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6.8/10 43 votes

Quick facts

Year
1997
Runtime
2h 9m
TMDB Rating
⭐ 6.8/10
Votes
43
Genre
Drama, History, Music
Director
Language
AR

Cast

🎭 Drama 🎭 History 🎭 Music 🎬 Youssef Chahine 👤 Nour El-Sherif 👤 Hani Salama 👤 Rogena

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Destiny has a runtime of 2h 9m (2 hours and 9 minutes).
Destiny was directed by Youssef Chahine and released in 1997.
Destiny is a Drama, History, Music film (1997).
The cast of Destiny includes Nour El-Sherif, Hani Salama, Rogena, Layla Olwy, Mahmoud Hemida.
Destiny has a TMDB rating of 6.8/10 based on 43 votes.

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