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Destiny

Destiny

6.8/10 TMDB1997Drama129 minutes

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.

NO
Nour El-Sherif
Averroes/Ibn Rushd
FA
Fayeq Azab
Al-Razi
SA
Sanaa Younes
Assailant's mother
LA
Layla Olwy
Manuella/Gypsy Woman
KH
Khaled El Nabawy
Nasser, The Crown Prince
FA
Faris Rahoma
Youssef
HA
Hani Salama
Abdallah
RO
Rogena
Salma
MO
Mohamed Ragab
Assailant
MA
Maher Selim
MA
Mahmoud Hemida
Al Mansour, The Caliph
AB
Abdullah Mahmoud
Borhan

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129 minutes
العربية
Egypt
August 18, 1997

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