ABO ZAABAL 89

Credits

Name: ABO ZAABAL 89

Country: Ägypten/DE

Year of publication: 2024

Format: DCP

Format Canvas:

Color: color

Language : OmeU

Duration: 83 Minuten

Series: 22. Afrika Film Festival Köln

Direction: Mortada, Bassam

Abstract

Bassam Mortada was only five years old when his father Mahmoud was arrested in the middle of the night at their home in 1989 and taken away like many socialist activists to the infamous Abo Zaabal prison. Through the testimonies of his parents, close family friends, reenactments and archive footage, the director attempts to piece together his story and that of his family. ABO ZAABAL 89 is an introspective account that explores how the waves of political arrests in the 1970s and 1980s disrupted the lives of prisoners and their families in Egypt.