The Asphalt Kings
6.7
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.
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Cast
25 people
Mahmoud Hemida
Sayed
Known for
Karmouz War
Sorry For Disturbance
Abdullah Mahmoud
Ringo
Also in
Alexandria… Why?
The Wedge
Moustafa Zekri
Osama Fawzy
Hani Gerges Fawzy
Tarek El Tilmisany
Salwa Khattab
Inshrah
Also in
Nelly and Sherihan
Lock Up Your Sisters
Salah Marei
Hasan Hosny
Usta Muhammad
Known for
She Made Me a Criminal
The Headmaster
Rajeh Dawood
Gamil Ratib
Abdullah
Known for
Lawrence of Arabia
Shadow of Evil
Ahmad Metwalli
Osama Fawzy Director · Moustafa Zekri Writer Rageh Daoud Composer
United States release March 27, 1996 · Produced in Egypt · Original title عفاريت الاسفلت
Production
Aflam Guirguiss Fawzy
Production
Egypt
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Languages
Original title
عفاريت الاسفلت
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
United States · March 27, 1996
Limited theatrical
Egypt · July 8, 1996
Theatrical
Switzerland
August 11, 1996 · Premiere · Source: IMDB (Locarno Film Festival)
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