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| Director: Youssef Chahine
Actors: Nour El-sherif, Laila Eloui, Mahmoud Hemida, Safia El Emari, Mohamed Mounir
Studio: New Yorker Video
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 24641
Format: Color, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: Arabic (Original Language), French (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: VHS Tape
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 135 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 3.9 x 1.1
ISBN: 1567302114
UPC: 717119740931
EAN: 9781567302110
ASIN: B000031VPJ
Theatrical Release Date: October 16, 1998
Release Date: July 17, 2001
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Condition: X-library rental tape with the original box cut to fit a library case. Some use wear ans stickers. Ships Daily!
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 Youssef Chahine's best work August 17, 2000
Isis S. Mikhail (Birmingham, Alabama USA)
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This award winning movie is the best work of Chahine, unless his best work is yet to come! This movie has received many awards at the Cannes Festival in France. But "Destiny"'s highest recognition was it's selection for the 50th Anniversary Award at Cannes also. This prize is given only once to a most outstanding and distinguished movie. If there is one movie you need to see from Chahine's work, this is IT!
Youssef Chahein's best movie ever. March 8, 2001
Nawafe@hotmail.com (Saudi but now inTucson, Arizona United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
What a great Movie. Youseef put all of his effort to come up with this Unparallel movie. I personlly look forword to see what is his new? He is the best Director in the middle east..no doupt about that. Don't hisitate..go ahead and buy it..you won't regret it..!
 Ready for measure to win The Palme d'Or April 16, 2001
3 out of 7 found this review helpful
Chahine is an esteemed director , when I see the reruns of some of his early material such as " Bab El-Hadid" , I marvel at the beauty and the simplicity of those films ,made in the pure neo-realist tradition. Yet "The destiny" is a weak and disconnected film , its main message is a "politically correct" one: there can be no strict adherence to a religious doctrine without fanaticism and to a certain extent terrorism , that message was almost tailored to please the western media , and Mr Chahine was rewarded with the much coveted Palme d'Or. I also agree with Mr Hefny the reviewer from Cairo , he blew a great opportunity for a serious treatment of the subject of political coercion in the name of religion . His decision to use egyptian slang as the language of Andalusia some 800 years ago is a farce and an insult to the intelligence of the arab viewer. With all due respects to Mr Chahine , we deserve better than this.
could have been something February 24, 2002
3 out of 15 found this review helpful
imagine the movie "the ten commandements" with a bronx or a brooklyn accent. thats what destiny feels like when you are an arabic speaker. the actors speak modern day egyptian accent which sounds completely silly to arabs considering that the setting of the movie is the 12th century spain. the idea could have been great if chahine would have stuck to historical accuracy. but i guess chahine dont care about his arab audience that much.
Chahine Junky :)) August 5, 2003
Mona Osman (Livermore, Ca United States)
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
I must admit that I am a Chahine junky. He may not be accurate, he may not be liked in the arab world (he is pretty unpolitically correct & bold in his work), but I enjoy his work. Especially the more recent work.
He choses not only real interesting actors, but he also has a style. You watch these movies in the movie theatre & your heart really races. He taes you to another world, one you'd like to stay in.I just love all his movies, including this one. One comment though, Laial Olowy has acted with a little bit too much exaggeration. Not that it changed my mind. Oh I also want to add that I love the fact that it's in contemporary language, it makes it all the more interesting to watch. Who in the arab world really enjoys classical arabic?
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