The Farewell Song

Ahmed Rachedi
1978-01-01


10
116 min

Documentary tribute to the Egyptian singer Abdel Halim Hafez produced in 1977 consisting of archive images of the singer during his visit to Paris in September 1974, joined by fictional scenes which take the form of a journalistic investigation. A little-known film in the filmography of Ahmed Rachedi who during this Parisian period will direct another feature film that we would very much like to see again: "A Finger in the Gear" (1973), on a screenplay by Rachid Boudjedra. The credits and some images of "La chanson de l'Adieu", released in France in December 1981 in the famous Luxor hall in Paris where more than 5,000 spectators came to see it.

Cast

Name Character Team
Abdel Halim Hafez Self (archive footage) Unowned
Youssef Wahby Self Unowned
Nagwa Fouad Self Unowned
Tarek Habib Narrator Unowned
Nizar Qabbani Self Unowned
Kamal Al Taweel Self Unowned
Ahmed Fouad Hassan Self Unowned
Mustafa Ameen Self Unowned
Mohamed El Mougy Self Unowned