After experiencing obvious obstruction and pushback from his superiors in the police department, Egypt’s political leaders, and the suspects themselves, our man quickly realizes that this crime involves the very powerful elite of a deeply corrupt country where the notion of justice is only trotted out when convenient (and financially profitable). It’s a personal-meets-political portrait of a fictional murder mystery set within the confines of the very real corruption and unrest that eventually led to the Tahrir Square uprising of January 25, 2011.Īmid the dusty, crumbling streets of downtown Cairo, Noredin Mostafa (a police officer played by Fares Fares) attempts to investigate the murder of a beautiful club singer at the Nile Hilton Hotel. Cairo Crime: A Murder Mystery Simmers Against the Backdrop of a RevolutionĪfter an animated feature about a dystopian nightmare (2009’s Metropia), a Swedish heist drama (2014’s Tommy), and a couple of music videos for singer-songwriter Lykke Li, filmmaker and former graffiti artist Tarik Saleh turns his eye as both writer and director to the 2011 Egyptian revolution in The Nile Hilton Incident.
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