Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - October 8, 1973, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press monday october 8, 1973 _ _ _ egyptian film causing political storm in Arab world by Jim Hoagland Beirut special tons the chastened sad wanting nightly to last port studio land 317kenntdy dinner reservations 947-5503 Lime the extent of the i even knowing it he israeli Victory Over the arabs sobs. In june 1967. As Nasser Speaks tears Roll Down the weather beaten face one of the watchers an egyptian peasant known to be a rough boisterous Man. Like he others in the crowded room he has until now be sieved Cairo radio s claims hat the israelis had failed to penetrate into the Sinai Penin Sula. Lost the without Savoy Cornth Fri grim car outta hmm fact room the comme Cheros 9 to exotic dancer noon i 5-6 . Meanwhile on the other Side of Cairo in this moment of National disaster government bureaucrats Are busily pursuing a Deal involving machinery they have stolen from a state owned factory. This is the tone of Al Ousbor the a mordant exciting new film that is an important statement about Egypt s National mood today. It is being hailed As the most Brilliant work yet achieved by an Arab film director. It is being hailed that is in the few cities where it can be seen. Banned by nervous Cen sors an Egypt and Syria and the target of sabotage attempts by has sexists when it opened in Beirut Al Ousbor is causing apolitical the Arab world. The film s egyptian director s s of Chahine has come under Strong attack in the Cairo press since the movie opened to full houses Here in the lebanese capital last month. Veiled threats of punishment Are surfacing in the Cairo Media. Or. Chahine Ruben Gurevych music director and conductor your 1973-74 season the world of chamber music at the Winnipeg Art gallery from the glory of the italian Renaissance of Monteverdi through Vivaldi s eloquent evocation of nature in the four seasons. 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Violin november 29-30 oboe concerto soloist Douglas Barslow oboe variations of. 10 on a theme by Frank Bridge serenade for strings in e major of. 22 january 31-Februaryj concerto no i symphony Tor strings no. 11 in f minor concertino Tor violin and strings soloist. Arthur Poison. Violin Bachlan no. 9 for Springs. March 21-22 concerto Grosso no. 1 for strings and piano Vigilo piano concerto in f minor soloist Alberto Reyes piano transfigured night program subject to changed tickets available now at 47, has also Ding Are of High Quality and or. Chahine draws a Bead on corrupt and lying bureaucrats those greed and poor Leader hip he implies led to the 1967 debacle for Egypt. Or. Chahine also skilfully h o w s admirable facets of egyptian character that arc of Well known in the West. He continually contrasts the simplicity wry sense of humor and personal warmth of the egyptian masses to the Vena ily of the government officials. Without directly attack no Nasser he gives rare in sights into the everyday prob Ems faced by those who live under the system Nasser built. Two representative scenes the hero a Young police Man hurries from his House to report to duty on the morning the june War begins. While the Street loudspeakers blare that 23 israeli planes have been shot Down by the egyptian air Force in the first minutes o the Battle the policeman unsuccessfully struggles to get his egyptian made Fiat started providing a telling comment on the Gap Between propaganda and technological reality. When the crowds Ponta o reject Nasser s resignation it the end of the War a Securi y official is shown frantically touting to a colleague on the Telephone who the hell Are lose people Are they your crowds who is in charge of or. Chahine has also include d a look at egyptian Romance i a cry been deprived by the govern ment the egyptian equivalent of an Oscar voted by critics for his film Al Ikhtiar tin it is easy to see Why the Bird has become the political equivalent for arabs of deep Throat. A film that people Are vigorously debating even if they seen it and which symbolizes a Strong clash in views of what can and cannot be screened. Most of the 30 to 40 films t u r n e d out each year in Egypt s government controlled film busiest in Afri Ica and the Middle East Are inconsequential and1 technically shoddy thrillers and Light com Edies that keep Well Clear of politics arid other serious sub the Bird is a serious these respects. The realistic cinematography and Neoushy surge into the Street Royal George love mild scene that while by contemporary Vestern standards is torrid by Arab custom. In obvious defer ence to moslem sensibilities in an otherwise iconoclastic film nude embrace by the hero and heroine takes place in a fantasy to Liged dream sequence not in the realistic style the rest of the product Ion. There is scant reference to Israel in the film and none of e embittered propaganda hat westerners might expect from an Arab film about the 1967 War. The final scene demonstrating or. Chahine s deep attachment to Mother Egypt concerns a woman giving birth in the Middle the chaps o defeat evidently symbolizing Egypt s ability to endure an regenerate itself. The official Wrath that the do Loehoe in the Richelieu room Sampera in in can can lounge take two All week continuous exotic Jamboree All afternoon Friday cat Park dining thrice Delly banquets for Pintoff Niton phone 843-1544 open till 1 . Hotel 123 Regent ave., to Crawford 9 to exotic dancer 12 to 1 4 to 6 Touk Tomy due limn and i Africa Hwa Firon. Mio with Claudia Villa tonight pm 6 . Mature beverage room now appearing next dancing highly Larga floor no cover no minimum exotic dancer daily noon 6 in the Viking she Taissa win a trip to the Grey cup with champs tuesday and wednesday special Kentucky Fried Chicken dinner Hospital agreement reached Toronto up sex. Tend icare Ltd., which describes itself As Canada s largest health care company announced Friday it and the govern m e n t of Saskatchewan have reached agreement in principle on a plan under which the. Company will operate a Hospital in Sas Katoon while contracts for the management and operation of hospitals by companies in the private sector exist in other countries particularly in the United states this is i believe to be the first Hospital in Canada which will be managed and operated under a contract of this said Exten. Dicarne s chairman of the Board Harold l. Liver Gant. Under the plan Exten Dicarne would sell its 152 bed s a ska t o on nursing Centre to the province. Centre would be converted into a chronic care Hospital and extend care would provide Long term manage Meni for a fixed fee with annual increments. Extend care a 1-s o announced acquisition of nursing Home operations in re g in a and Moose jaw from Triec equities Ltd. Extend care operates 19 nursing centres in Ontario Quebec and Saskatchewan with a total licensed Capac Ity of Beds plus a Toronto diagnostic services division a Toronto phar Macy division and a Toron to management and development division. Marion hotel 393 Marion Street dancing in the pub grizzly Bare Black magic exotic Dincer daily noon 4-6 visit our newly remodelled Din ing room ant min Al where mat Uiti tomorrow attn future at adults youth Towne Cinema m has incurred for or. Be and his collaborators is eing translated into financial angulation. Egypt is the Ain Market for films in the Rab world and the bail or ered by cultural minister Yussef Al Sabai is Likely to Ean that the product on costs will not be Reco red. Since the government con ols budget allocations for the tonal sized film Industry in Egypt or. Chahine is not like r to get financing for new 1ms at Home. He is currently orking in Algiers. The Bird is credited As an by plan algerian co product on and prints Are being distributed abroad evidently through or. Chahine s Al Erian partners. On the Afler Oon it opened at three Beirut Lovie houses Ink was hurled t the screen in each House and smoke bombs drove the customers from the theatre. Others who worked on Thim have been in trouble wit he government this year Iuta _1 Kholi a journalist who a ailed under Nasser for his Lei is beliefs helped write the script to amour palist being jailed for exposing corruption. Or. Kholi and Mohen Tewfik the Lead actress be re both expelled recently rom Egypt s Only Legal Politi Al party the Arab socialist Union. Sheikh Imam a Blind poet who wrote a moving Ballad used As a theme for the film currently is in jail for support no student protesters. Despite this the Bird is Fly no High with 3eirut audiences. I know dozens egyptians who have prolonged their vacations in Beirut just so they could see the film and a great Many syrians Are driving across the Border to see says lebanese film critic Samir Nasri who Calls Al Ous or a Beautiful work that re Veals Only some truths that everyone knew already but that the egyptian authorities tremble to see projected on the big screen in the Cross i v the _ switchblade tonight t Tut Day the Cross switchblade pal Boot 7a9 .-color-mature Iov Camf trons air Fly the Golden Way stay in the Beautiful Holiday inn cup this Coupon Only Solil co Modalion. Air and Grey cup game on sunday inf prize includes oddities in the Worcester mass. A a state trooper delivered his in baby today when a police car taking them to Hospital did t get there in time. Trooper Thomas Farrell who is assigned to the Massachusetts t u r n p i k e in the Worcester area was in the Jack seat of an Auburn police department Cruiser when his into labor. Albany . A state comptroller Arthurle Vitt received a Check Friday accompanied by a let Ter that said please put in conscience fund. Jesus will be coming soon and i. Must be ready. Praise his c0u11tland Minn. A mrs. Floyd Drill or. Says she received a Surprise package in the mail this her Billfold which had been stolen 10 years earlier. V an accompanying note from the postmaster at St. Peter said the Billfold had been found in a letter Box in St. Peter. Morton Winner of Cannes film festival grand prize Frankenstein twins o Dracula doors open sunday . It s about the first time you fall in love. Glenda Jackson a i mature 1 touch of class rip roaring adventure. Wild Raunchy humor Georgec. Faredun a Sassy siamese cat i Hom crude to find a Man 1ratdarn of Uranin Pray 3rd week and All the laughter of the Broadway hit Edward Albert Vias am Otic in Maht who Hab about two of tit stand to award Arii Thi final ladle t to iou Aioli ha1 Romu Ieuv and ii Wio of Mctoni Kotman once Iii motion picture links in Tang into you you la never be the 3rd week m suspense from director of to Costa Gavras. Wmnbof3 Academy awards ;