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| name = Chitchat on the Nile <br>(Adrift on the Nile)▼
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| director = [[Hussein Kamal]]
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| starring = [[Emad Hamdy]], <br/>[[Ahmed Ramzy]],<br/>[[Magda El-Khatib]] <br/>[[Adel Adham]], <br/>[[Mervat Amin]], <br/>[[Suhair Ramzi]], <br/>[[Neamat Mokhtar]]
| music = Ali Ismail
| cinematography = Mostapha Emam
| editing = Rashida Abdel Salam
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| released = {{Film date|1971}}
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'''''Chitchat on the Nile''''' ({{lang-ar|ثرثرة فوق النيل}}) (''Adrift on the Nile'') is a 1971 film based on the 1966 novel ''[[ThartharahAdrift fawqaon al-Nīlthe (book)|novelNile]]'' by [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel Laureate]] [[Naguib Mahfouz]]. The film is a member in Top 100 Egyptian films list.
 
== Plot ==
{{cquote|''Al-[[hashish]] is forbidden while [[alcohol (drug)|alcohol]] isn't? Why? Both are bad for the health? Both are intoxicating?''}}▼
 
▲{{cquote|''Al-[[hashish]] is forbidden while [[alcohol]] isn't? Why? Both are bad for the health? Both are intoxicating?''}}
 
The film addresses the decadence of [[Egypt]]ian [[society]] during the [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] era.
 
It tells the story of a simple [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] workercivil servant, Anis (played by [[Emad Hamdi]]), who cannot tolerate the hypocrisy of the [[Politics of Egypt|Egyptian government]] (for whom he works at the Ministry of Health) and the illiteracy of the [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] public and decides to hide from all the problems in the country by taking up smoking [[hashish]] in a [[hookah|shisha]], a popular smoking habit in [[Egypt]], to escape from reality.
 
Anis (who used to work as a teacher) meets with an old student, Ragab (actor [[Ahmed Ramzy]]), by chance. Ragab invites him to the small boat in the [[Nile]]. And Anis discovers soon enough that he isn'tis not the only person who smokes shisha but a bunch of other [[elite]], [[middle class]] and [[low class]] people are all on the boat. He soon discovers that everyone is smoking to forget the reality and hypocrisy of Egyptian life.
 
At the end of the movie, Anis decides to stop smoking [[hookah|shisha]] and so stop taking drugs. But soon he is left alone in the street as a crazy person not because he was actually crazy but because you can't wake up a lot of people who are stoned which is almost everyone in Egypt.{{Vague|date=June 2009}}
 
The most noticeable thing about this movie that the effect it had in [[Nasser]] era are actually the same problems that is facing [[Egyptians]] today in [[Mubarak]]'s time where people are trying to escape through [[drugs]], [[alcohol]], or excessive [[radical religion]] where the true problem lies on the corruption and unsuccessful life of many in [[Egypt]] of today.{{POV-statement|date=June 2009}}
 
==Political background==
The film was released during the era of [[Anwar Al Sadat]] the former Presidentgovernment of [[Egypt]],Anwar winnerAl of [[Nobel Peace PrizeSadat]], and was takenquickly quicklyremoved from the market because the filmit was seen as a criticism of the [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] [[socialism|Nasser]] period, andwhen thefilms oppressionthat ofdid artisticnot filmsconform with Nasser's politics and ideology were often duringsuppressed. [[GamalAnwar Abdelal-Sadat]] Nasserdid not want to upset the [[Egyptians|Nasser'sEgyptian]] people, some of whom still loved and respected Nasser.
time when it was forbidden to make any film unless the rich were clearly portrayed critically while the poor had to be shown sympathetically. [[Anwar al-Sadat]] didn't want to upset the [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] people, some of whom still loved and respected Nasser.
 
EvenThe thoughfilms deals frankly with the filmissue mightof seemdrug toaddiction, beas aboutwell drugas problemsthe it'sdecadence actuallythat aobtained during the politicallylate controversialNasser movieera. The film was produced in [[1971]], and was unsuccessful financially, dueas toit excessivewas banningfrequently that happened not onlybanned in the [[Middle East]] butand also in the westWest (mainly Europe). It only gained acclaim [[35]] years later. And even though the worldIt is now more open it's still forbiddenbanned in many countries, especially in the Arab countriesworld.
 
It was very carefully made by writer [[Naguib Mahfouz]] and director [[Hussein Kamal]]. It's a heartfelt film where everyone is affected by the hypocrisy of Nasser's regime.
 
The film is now distributed by Founoon and is subtitled in French and English.
 
==References==
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== External links ==
* {{imdbIMDb title|0356117|Chitchat on the Nile <br>(Adrift on the Nile)}}
 
{{Naguib Mahfouz}}
 
[[Category:Egyptian1971 films]]
[[Category:Arabic1971 comedy-languagedrama films]]
[[Category:Films1970s basedArabic-language on novelsfilms]]
[[Category:Egyptian black-and-white films]]
 
[[Category:Films based on Egyptian novels]]
[[ar:ثرثرة فوق النيل (فيلم)]]
[[Category:Films directed by Hussein Kamal]]
[[fr:Chichat sur le Nil]]
[[Category:Films based on works by Naguib Mahfouz]]
[[Category:Egyptian comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Nile in fiction]]
[[Category:1970s Egyptian films]]
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