| Al Asfour | |
| Director: | Youssef Chahine |
| Producer: | Misr International Films MH Films |
| Starring: | Mahmoud el-Meliguy Salah Kabil Salah Mansour Ali El Sherif Ahmed Bedir Hamdy Ahmed Habiba Mohsena Tawfik |
| Runtime: | 105 minutes |
| Country: | Algeria Egypt |
| Language: | Arabic |
| Screenplay: | Youssef Chahine Lotfi Al Khouli |
| Cinematography: | Mostafa Emam |
| Editing: | Rashida Abdel Salam |
| Music: | Hassan Abouzeid |
Al Asfour ("The Sparrow") is a 1972 film directed by Youssef Chahine,[1] [2] [3] with Ali Badrakhan[4] as second director.
June, 1967, on the eve of the Six-Day War. The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer the harassment of a corrupt businessman. The police officer crosses paths with a journalist who is investigating what appears to be a scandal involving the theft of weapons and war machinery by high officials. Youssef Chahine offers us a portrait of the “sparrows”, the simple people of his country whom others use to get rich.