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Barsoum Looking for a Job

برسوم يبحث عن وظيفة

1923·16 min·EG
Director: Mohamed Bayoumi
ComedyDrama

It is the story of two friends, one a Muslim, Sheik Metwalli, and the other a Coptic Christian, Barsoum, both unemployed, suffering from hunger, and competing for a job in a bank. When the bank’s director mistakes them for wealthy businessmen, he takes them to his home for a lavish lunch. But upon learning their actual status, he chases them out of the house. At the film’s conclusion, as the two friends rest on the sidewalk absorbing their long-overdue meal, they are arrested by a policeman.

It is the story of two friends, one a Muslim, Sheik Metwalli, and the other a Coptic Christian, Barsoum, both unemployed, suffering from hunger, and competing for a job in a bank. When the bank’s director mistakes them for wealthy businessmen, he takes them to his home for a lavish lunch. But upon learning their actual status, he chases them out of the house. At the film’s conclusion, as the two friends rest on the sidewalk absorbing their long-overdue meal, they are arrested by a policeman.

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Cast

A

Adel Hameed

Barsoum

Bishara Wakim

Bishara Wakim

Metwalli

F

Fawzi Mounib

Fardous Hassan

Fardous Hassan

V

Victoria Kohin

Sayed Mustafa

Sayed Mustafa

M

Muhammad Yousuf

A

Abdel Hamid Zaki

Crew

Mohamed Bayoumi

writer

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