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Back to Alexandria

DirectorTamer Ruggli

“A journey to the past to reconcile the present.”

6.1 / 10 · 7 votes

2024

1h 35m

DramaComedy

After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from the eccentric aristocrat as a young adult. Now she feels compelled to meet her again.

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Cast

Nadine Labaki

Sue

Hani Adel

Sherif

Laila Ezz El Arab

Lutfeya

Fanny Ardant

Fairouz

Menha Batraoui

Tante Indji

Inam Salusah

Saneya

Hassan El-Adl

Reddah

Salwa Othman

Neima

Enaam Salousa

Saneya

Hazem Ehab

Hani

Karima Mansour

Randa

Manuela Biedermann

Madame Dubois

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