CENTRAL STATION

Cairo's main railroad station is the setting for Egyptian society in small, a community comprised of luggage carriers and soft-drink sellers who live in abandoned traincars. A crippled newspaper dealer, Kinawi (Chahine himself), falls in love with the beauteous but indifferent Hanuma, a lemonade seller who has eyes only for the handsome Abu Sri'. Swept away by his obsessive desire, Kinawi kidnaps the object of his passion, with terrible consequences. This Chahine masterpiece explores sexuality and repression, madness and violence, among the marginalized. CAIRO STATION brought the director international recognition at the Berlin Film Festival.