120 minutes
3/27/1996
A raucous and amazingly irreverent look at contemporary Cairo, THE ASPHALT KING centers on Sayed, a swaggering cabdriver and (to his mind) born womanizer. Embroiled in a torrid affair with a buxom neighbor, Sayed pays his best friend Ringo to keep the neighbor's barber husband busy -- but the husband, as well as Ringo, Sayed's mother, father, sister and grandfather, have their own amorous intrigues brewing. Director Oussama Fawzi has been hailed as the brightest young director to have recently emerged in Egyptian cinema.
Mahmoud Hemida
as Sayed
Abdullah Mahmoud
as Ringo
Salwa Khattab
as Inshrah
Hassan Hosny
as Usta Muhammad
Gamil Ratib
as Abdullah
Aida Abdel Aziz
as Tafida
Lotfy Labib
as Saleh
Mohammed Tawfik
as Ali
Manal Afifi
as Bataa
Amal Ibrahim
as Zahia
Mohamed Sharaf
as Shaban
Shaaban Abdel Rahim
as Singer
Alaa Awad
Maged El Kedwany
as Halzouna
Kamal Soliman
Motawie Eweiss