The Night of Counting the Years

Hamlet if set in Egypt. A family in the 1880s loots a tomb to survive, but one son's conscience threatens their livelihood when authorities arrive. The film's formal austerity lends gravity to its account of a clash between tradition and modernity.

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Shadi Abdel Salam directed The Night of Counting the Years in 1969. See Shadi Abdel Salam's full filmography, where to start with Shadi Abdel Salam, or where to go after you've seen everything by Shadi Abdel Salam.

The Night of Counting the Years was released in 1969 (AR original-language production), with a runtime of 102 minutes.