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Set shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
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"We live in a time where more and more cinema is available to more and more people than any other time in history, and yet, some of the all-timers still have yet to get their fair share of the spotlight. Egypt's greatest filmmaker, Youssef Chahine, has to be near the forefront of this group, with a whopping FOUR of his forty-five films currently available through Netflix, a list that doesn't even include his most famous and acclaimed triumph, 1958′s masterful potboiler "Cairo Station". "The Sparrow" is my fourth Chahine, after "Cairo Station", the "M..."
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Set shortly before and during the Six-Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.