

129 minutes
8/18/1997
In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.

Nour El-Sherif
as Averroes/Ibn Rushd

Hani Salama
as Abdallah

Rogena
as Salma

Layla Olwy
as Manuella/Gypsy Woman

Mahmoud Hemida
as Al Mansour, The Caliph

Safia ElEmary
as Averroes' Wife/Ibn Rushd's wife

Mohamed Mounir
as Marwan/Poet

Khaled El Nabawy
as Nasser, The Crown Prince

Seif Abdelrahman
as Caliph's Brother
Abdullah Mahmoud
as Borhan

Ahmed Fouad Selim
as Cheikh Riad

Faris Rahoma
as Youssef

Ahmed Mokhtar
as Badr

Sherifa Maher
as Manuella's Mother

Fayeq Azab
as Al-Razi

Sanaa Younes
as Assailant's mother

Mohamed Ragab
as Assailant

Hassan El-Adl
as Jafar

Ahmed Sami Abdallah

Maher Selim

Ahmed Hegazi

Magdy Idris
as Emir of the Sect

Mohammad Malas
as Assailant's Father

Hanaa Nassor

Jihad Saad
Engy Abaza
as Sarah
Ameer Al Assemi
as Saad, Assailant's brother