The film is Haifa’s return to work in Egyptian cinema, following an absence of 8 years (Facebook)
A few days ago, Egyptian actor Ahmed El-Fishawy announced the start of showing the movie “Ghosts of Europe”, starring the Lebanese star. Haifa Wahbiwithin the film marathon ofEid al-Fitr In Egypt, but what happened is that the work was shown only in some Arab countries, including Qatar, the Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Oman and Bahrain, and it was banned in Egypt.
It had been decided to show it more than once, as filming ended two years ago, but each time it was postponed, until the major crisis came with the imprisonment of the film’s producer, Muhammad Al-Waziri, for five years, following lawsuits brought by Haifa once morest him, and he is still imprisoned, with the identification of A previous date for the job offer was in July 2020, she submitted a request to the censorship of artistic works, the Syndicate of Acting Professions, the Musicians Syndicate, and the Film Industry Chamber to prevent the offer of work, because she did not receive her wages, and at that time, Al-Waziri said that she had no right to take this step, and she would not You may prevent a job offer except by a court decision.
Two years have passed since the film was not shown, so that, according to the words of the actor Ahmed al-Fishawy, another date was set, which is the ongoing Eid al-Fitr, but the work did not obtain a commercial permit for the show, and rumors spread confirming that Haifa intervened once more to prevent its presentation, with evidence that she did not participate in at all to show the film, as well. al-Fishawi did.
For his part, her lawyer, Yasser Kantoush, said, in statements attributed to him, that he sent a letter to cinemas warning them once morest showing it because the production company’s license has expired, and it cannot obtain a permit to show. Kantoush denied what was issued by the distributing company, “Dollar Film,” that The reason for not showing up is because the montage hasn’t been finished.
“Ghosts of Europe” is Haifa’s return to work in Egyptian cinemaAfter an absence of eight years since she presented the movie “Halawet Rouh” in 2014, with director Sameh Abdel Aziz.
The events of the film revolve around three brothers; They are Haifa Wehbe, Ahmed El-Fishawy, Mustafa Khater. They live in Egypt in a weak economic situation, they have triplets who live in Europe. Haifa plays the role of a girl who lives in a popular neighborhood in the center of the country, and her sister who lives in Europe intends to return to Egypt, and actor Mustafa Khater plays the role of a microbus driver in Egypt, who suffers economically, while his twin embodies the personality of a great computer engineer in Europe, and some paradoxes occur because of These class differences within the framework of social action.
The work, whose name was changed twice before “The Ghosts of Europe”, the first time carried the name “Alexander’s Stone”, and the second was “Al-Khawaja’s Contract”; In addition to Haifa, Ahmed El-Fishawy, Mustafa Khater, Arwa Joudeh, Abbas Abu Al-Hassan and Ahmed Daoud will participate in the championship. The story was written by Karim Farouk, script and dialogue by Amin Gamal, Mohamed Abu El-Saad, Sherif Yousry, and directed by Mohamed Hamaki in his first directing experience.
