Adieu Bonaparte Explained

Adieu Bonaparte
Director:	Youssef Chahine
Producer:	Humbert Balsan Marianne Khoury Jean-Pierre Mahot
Starring:	Michel Piccoli Salah Zulfikar Mohsen Mohieddin Patrice Chéreau
Cinematography:	Mohsen Nasr
Editing:	Luc Barnier
Runtime:	115 minutes
Country:	Egypt France
Language:	Egyptian Arabic French

Adieu Bonaparte or Bonaparte in Egypt (arz|وداعا بونابرت, translit.Weda'an Bonapart) is a 1985 Egyptian-French historical drama film directed by Youssef Chahine and stars Michel Piccoli, Salah Zulfikar, Mohsen Mohieddin and Patrice Chéreau. It was entered into the 1985 Cannes Film Festival.^[1] It was later selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.^[2]

Cast

• Michel Piccoli as Cafarelli
• Salah Zulfikar as Cheikh Hassouna
• Mohsen Mohieddin as Ali
• Patrice Chéreau as Napoléon Bonaparte
• Mohsena Tewfik as La mère
• Christian Patey as Horace
• Gamil Ratib as Barthelemy
• Taheya Cariocca as La sage femme
• Huda Sultan as Nefissa
• Claude Cernay as Decoin
• Mohamad Dardiri as Sheikh Charaf
• Hassan El Adl as Cheikh Aedalah
• Tewfik El Dekn as Le Derwiche (as Tewfik El Dekken)
• Seif El Dine as Kourayem (as Seif Eddina)
• Hassan Husseiny as Le père
• Farid Mahmoud as Faltaos

See also

• Youssef Chahine filmography
• Salah Zulfikar filmography
• List of Egyptian films of the 1980s

Notes and References

1. Web site: Festival de Cannes: Adieu Bonaparte . 26 June 2009. festival-cannes.com.
2. Web site: Cannes Classics 2016 . 21 April 2016 . 20 April 2016 . Cannes Film Festival . https://web.archive.org/web/20170210012746/http://www.festival-cannes.fr/en/article/62136.html . 10 February 2017 . dead.