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Barsoum Looking for a Job

Barsoum Looking for a Job

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 1923

Runtime

0h 16m

Genres

Comedy, Drama

User Score

63%

Original Title

برسوم يبحث عن وظيفة

Director

Mohamed Bayoumi

Description

It is the story of two friends, one a Muslim, Sheik Metwalli, and the other a Coptic Christian, Barsoum, both unemployed, suffering from hunger, and competing for a job in a bank. When the bank’s director mistakes them for wealthy businessmen, he takes them to his home for a lavish lunch. But upon learning their actual status, he chases them out of the house. At the film’s conclusion, as the two friends rest on the sidewalk absorbing their long-overdue meal, they are arrested by a policeman.