The Belly Dancer and The Politician | |
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الراقصة والسياسي | |
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Written by | Ihsan Abdel Quddous |
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Music by | Muhammed Sultan |
Production companies | Screen 2000 Cinema and Video |
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Country | Egypt |
Language | Egyptian Arabic |
The Belly Dancer and the Politician ( Egyptian Arabic: الراقصة والسياسي, translit. Al Raqisa wa Al Siyasy) is an Egyptian film released in 1990.
Based on a novel by Ihsan Abdel Quddous, the film discusses the eternal conflict of power and authority, symbolized by the love affair between a politician and a belly dancer, revealing the corruption of a system where it becomes difficult to decide which has more integrity, the politician or the dancer. [1]