In the 12th century's Andalusia lives Ibn Rushd a prominent Islamic philosopher with his wife Zeinab and daughter Salma. The principality is ruled by Khalifa ElMansour who has two sons, ElNasser, an intellectual that likes Ibn Rush and is in love with his daughter Salma. The younger son Abdallah is more into dancing and poetry, spending most of his times with the gypsy family and getting the daughter pregnant. The Khalifa is depending on the extremists to build his army granting them more power which they use to combat artists and philosophers. The extremists succeed in recruiting Abd Allah and train him to kill his father. Events go on where Marawan, the gypsy singer, is killed and Ibn Rushd's books are burnt. Adapted from the real life of Ibn Rushd AlMasir is Chahine's statement against extremism.
as Averroes/Ibn Rushd
as Abdallah
as Salma
as Manuella/Gypsy Woman
as Al Mansour, The Caliph
as Averroes' Wife/Ibn Rushd's wife
as Marwan/Poet
as Nasser, The Crown Prince
as Caliph's Brother
as Borhan
as Cheikh Riad
as Youssef
as Badr
as Manuella's Mother
as Al-Razi
as Assailant's mother
as Assailant
as Jafar
as Emir of the Sect
as Assailant's Father
as Sarah
as Saad, Assailant's brother
