This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.
as ALI
as Bakr
as Barthélémy
as Caffarelli
as Napoléon Bonaparte
as La femme de Bakr
as La Mère
as Kourayem
as Horace
as Le père
as Le cheikh Hassouna
as Nefissa
as Yehia
as Nahed
as L'imprimeur Marcel
