Barsoum Looking for a Job
1923 · 16 min · Comedy, Drama
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.
- Director
- Mohamed Bayoumi
- Writer
- Mohamed Bayoumi
- Released
- January 1, 1923
- Language
- xx
Cast
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