Barsoum Looking for a Job
Directed byMohammed Bayoumi
Written byMohammed Bayoumi
Produced byMohammed Bayoumi
StarringBishara Wakim
CinematographyMohammed Bayoumi
Release date
  • 31 December 1923 (1923-12-31) (Egypt)
Running time
16 minutes
CountryEgypt
LanguageEgyptian Arabic

Barsoum Looking for a Job is a 1923 Egyptian silent film written and directed by Mohammed Bayoumi,[1][2][3] and stars Bishara Wakim.[4][5][6]

Plot

Barsoum looks for work to feed himself on a newspaper that costs him nothing. Barsoum collects newspapers thrown by a girl by the window. A boy enters the abandoned house where the protagonist sleeps in a straw den, but is beaten by a man who surprises him as he leaves. Barsoum makes the sign of the cross and prays in front of sacred Christian images and the photo of revolution leader Saad Zaghloul. Barsoum does not find bread and is in despair. Barsoum is invited to eat with another man by a wealthy gentleman and they eat with voraciousness and hunger, to the point of raising the food from the fork to the landlord and to a girl who is at the table.[7]

Cast

Primary cast

  • Bishara Wakim as Sheikh Metwalli
  • Adel Hamid as Barsoum
  • Abdel Hamid Zaki as Bank manager

Supporting cast

  • Victoria Cohen
  • Ferdoos Hassan
  • Mohamed Youssef
  • Sayed Mostafa
  • Ahmed Lail as The servant
  • Ahmed Al-Sharaieb as The doctor
  • Mary Mansour as The nurse
  • Ahmed Galal as Salem

Overview

The topic of this movie is an appeal for tolerance between Muslims and Christians in Egypt during the 1919 Revolution. We see Barsoum pray in front of a photograph of Saint Mary, under which there are the crescent, the cross, and the photograph of Saad Zaghloul, the leader of the revolution, showing the motto of unity between Muslims and Christians, one of the slogans of the revolution.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Ecrans D'Afrique (in French). Fédération panafricaine des cinéastes. 1995.
  2. ↑ Cairo Today. International Business Associates. 1991.
  3. ↑ Barsoum Looking for a Job (1923) | MUBI, retrieved 2023-12-25
  4. ↑ UNESCO (2021-10-01). The African Film Industry: Trends, challenges and opportunities for growth. UNESCO Publishing. ISBN 978-92-3-100470-4.
  5. ↑ Martin, Michael T.; Kaboré, Gaston Jean-Marie (2023-08-08). African Cinema: Manifesto and Practice for Cultural Decolonization: Volume 1: Colonial Antecedents, Constituents, Theory, and Articulations. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-06622-0.
  6. ↑ "Barsoum Looking for a Job (1923 film) 29". Wikimedia Commons. 1923-12-31. Retrieved 2023-12-25.
  7. ↑ Barsoum Looking for a Job (Short 1923) ⭐ 6.9 | Short, Comedy, Drama, retrieved 2023-12-25
  8. ↑ Barsoum Looking for a Job (Short 1923) ⭐ 6.9 | Short, Comedy, Drama, retrieved 2023-12-25
  9. ↑ Mazur, Eric Michael (2011-03-08). Encyclopedia of Religion and Film. Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-0-313-01398-0.
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