

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