
The Night of Counting the Years
7.7/10
Release: 27/01/1969
Duration: 1h 42m

Set in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.
Country: Egypt
Language: Arabic
Director:Shadi Abdel Salam
Writers
| Writer:Shadi Abdel Salam
Production
Merchant Ivory Productions
General Egyptian Cinema Organisation
Egyptian Ministry of Culture











