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At the end of this century, at the age of 88, Naguib Mahfouz, the only Nobel prizewinner for Literature of the Arab World, agrees, in this rare documentary, to confide in us. Almost blind and struck with deafness, marked by the after-effects of an Islamic attack, he turns out to be lively, witty and lucid. His childhood, his discovery of literature - both Egyptian and foreign -, his discipline of life, this City, Cairo, which he has only left three times in his life, the fundamentalism, the role of women, the future of civilization, good and evil : the writer leaves what he has lived through, as well as his view of society, to his people. In Egypt, even those who can neither read nor write know of his work which has been rendered familiar through film and television. While the people close to him, such as Gamal Al Ghitany, Youssef Al Quaid, Nour Al Sharif, or young Egyptians draw Mahfouz’s heritage, this film helps us share the author’s world and the evolution of Egypt in the past decades.

France - 1999 - 50 mn - Betacam Digital - Colour

Réalisation Francka Mouloudi Scénario Francka Mouloudi Image Ibrahim El Batout, Dominique Alizé Son Sayed Osman Montage Elizabeth Miquel, Carine Manicastri

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