Amrica Shika Bika

Egypt

1993

125 Min

Color

Arabic

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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CAST Ahmed Akl, Samy El-Adl, Mohamed Fouad, Mohamed Lotfy, Elshahat Mabrouk, Emad Rashad, Nahla Salama, Shouweikar

Synopsis

A group of young people dream of immigrating to America because they believe that their are golden opportunities to work, get rich quick, and to achieve dreams that are unable to achieve in Egypt.They fall victims to a swindler – Professor Gaber “Sami al-Adil” – who convinces them that by travelling to Romania he can get them visas to America. While they are lost in Romania they discover themselves. —IMDb

Director

Khairy Beshara

Khairy Beshara (Arabic: خيري بشارة‎; b. June 30, 1947 in Tanta, Egypt) is an Egyptian film director active in the Egyptian film industry since the 1970s. He is considered one of the Egyptian directors who re-defined Realism in Egyptian cinema in the 1980s.

Beshara completed his high school in Cairo then joined the Egyptian Higher Institute of Cinema where he graduated in 1967. He then went to Warsaw, Poland on a fellowship for two years where he met his future wife, Monika Kowalczyk. He started his career with a focus on documentaries then moved to feature narratives and directed 12 long features that were screened at various international film festivals. He is one of the first Egyptian and Arab directors to venture into digital film making in the late 1990s. —Wikipedia