''The Kit Kat'' () is a 1991

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ian

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that revolves around Sheikh Hosni, played by

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, a blind man living in the Al-Kit Kat neighborhood in

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. Sheikh Hosni lives with his mother and son and spends his days dreaming of riding a motorcycle and smoking

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. He does this to cope with his life as a blind man and the loss of his wife.

Director

The movie is written and directed by

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, Egyptian

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and

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. He won several awards for his work in

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. He won best director for Al-Kit Kat at the Biennale Des Cinemas Arabes in

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and also at the Damascus Film Festival in

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in the year 1992. He graduated in 1967 from the Higher Film Institute in

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and went on to work as a director and assistant in many critically acclaimed Arabic films. Al-Kit Kat is unlike any other Arab film; it showcases the despair and struggles of the characters under the guise of comedy and

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Plot

Sheikh Hosni, the film's main character and protagonist, lives with his son Youssef and his old mother following his wife's death. His son dreams of leaving

to find work in

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– and he plans to achieve this by convincing his father to sell the house – and he has an affair with a recently divorced woman named Fatima, who also lives in the Kit Kat neighborhood. Sheikh Hosni refuses to accept his blindness as a setback, and dreams of riding a motorcycle one day like any person would. To his son's dismay, he had already sold the house to a drug dealer. He spends most of his nights trying to forget his miserable reality with other residents of the Kit Kat neighborhood smoking hashish. He knows all the gossip of the neighborhood and its residents’ secrets. Ultimately, Sheikh Hosni is shown to be riding a

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in a crowded neighborhood.

Cast

as Sheikh Hosny *

Sherif Mounir Sherif Mounir (sometimes credited as Sherif Moneer), (), born May 14, 1959, in El Mansoura (المنصورة) in Dakahlia Governorate (محافظة الدقهلية) as Sherif Ahmed Mounir (), is an Egyptian movie and stage actor An acto ...

as Youssef * Aida Reyad as Fatima * Nagah El-Mogui as El-Haram *

Amina Rizk Amina Rizk (; April 15, 1910 – August 24, 2003) was a classic Egyptian actress who appeared in around 208 artworks including more than 70 movies between 1928 and 1996. She was calm in her later years, but described as a clown when she was youn ...

as Sheikh Hosny's mother * Ali Hassanein as Sheikh Obaid * Galeela Mahmood as Fatheya * Jihan Nasr as Rawayeh

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Kit Kat 1991 films 1990s Arabic-language films 1991 comedy-drama films Egyptian comedy-drama films 1990s Egyptian films Arabic-language comedy-drama films