Pharaoh's Campaign or Pharaoh's War better known as Hamlet Pheroun is a 2019 Egyptian thriller film directed by Raouf Abdel Aziz. [1] It stars Amr Saad and Ruby. The film is based on the 1954 Japanese film Seven Samurai. [2] [3] [4]
| Hamlet Pheroun | |
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| Directed by | Raouf Abdelaziz |
| Screenplay by | Karim Hassan Beshir |
| Story by | Peter Mimi |
| Produced by | Mohamed El Sobky |
| Starring | Amr Saad Ruby |
| Music by | Khaled Dagher |
Production company | El Sobky for Cinema Production |
Release date |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Egyptian Arabic |
| Budget | 70,000,000 EGP |
| Box office | 18,574,977 EGP |
The film revolves around a young man, Yehia, known as Faraoun (Pharaoh), who runs the largest organized assassination network in Egypt. He is forced to travel to Syria to free his son from an ISIS gang. He and a group of his friends rescue him, some of whom believe they have traveled there to search for a large treasure in the conflict zone. [5] [6]
Pharaoh's Campaign was produced by Mohamed El Sobky for El Sobky for Cinema Production and was released on July 2, 2019 in Egypt.
Yehia Faroun has taken the path of crime, leaving Dahab, the girl who loves him sincerely, and married her friend Raghda. When he was imprisoned, Raghda got a divorce and fled with their young son Abdullah to Syria, so that her son would not follow in his father's footsteps and meet his fate. But the Arab Spring in Syria caught up with them, and when she fled with her son with the savior of the innocent, Rick, the mercenary ISIS member Frank intercepted their path. He took the children to use them as human shields in his fight for gold, and raised them to be his future soldiers.
Meanwhile, he arrested Rick in the hope that he would join him, and forced the girl Rama to kill her father, to terrorize everyone. Raghda returned to Egypt to meet her ex-husband, Pharaoh, after his release from prison, and asked him to bring back their son, Abdullah. Pharaoh invited his thug friend, Hamza El Argentiny, to accompany him to Syria to bring back his son. He also gathered three thugs, his old colleagues, to travel with him under the pretext of recovering a treasure of 10 million dollars. They are Rady El Afreet, the circus's shooting king, and with him the acrobat Dahab. The latter welcomed the company of her ex-lover and getting rid of Rady, but Pharaoh agreed to Rady and refused Dahab. The second was Sayed Walaa, but he was in prison, and nominated his son Hatata, an explosives expert, instead. He called him and tempted him with the treasure. The third was Younis, a karate player, who swindles drug dealers and does not pay them for the goods he obtains. They all traveled to Syria, and their ex-lover, Dahab, followed them stealthily, greedy for money. They all managed to convince Mrs. Jalila and the people of her village, victims of the fighting in Syria, to join them to resist Frank and his men. They were able to kill some of Frank's men, capture others, and send them to Frank to return the children to them in exchange for his captured men. Frank himself arrived and managed to trick the village into attacking the village, capturing Faroun and his gang, Jalila and her men. However, Rama, who was forced by Faroun to kill her father, managed to free Rick, Faroun and his men, as well as the Egyptian prisoner, Major Walid El-Sergani.
Everyone united in a fierce fight against Frank and his men, and many of Pharaoh's followers were killed in the battle, including the Argentinian, Hatata, Younis, Dahab, and Faraon's ex-wife, Raghda. When Frank escaped with the gold in his car, Pharaoh chased him with another car, crashed into him, and flipped his car over. Frank was killed, and Pharaoh recovered his son Abdullah and returned with him to Egypt, along with the King of the Order, Rady Al-Afreet. Meanwhile, Rick returned to helping the innocent in Syria, until he reached the areas of the peacekeeping forces.