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The Yacoubian Building (also know as Omaret yakobean) full movie is released on Jun 21, 2006. Watch The Yacoubian Building online - the Arabic Drama movie from Egypt , which has achieved a worldwide gross of $2,414,837. The Yacoubian Building is directed by Marwan Hamed and created by Alaa' Al-Aswany with Adel Emam and Nour El-Sherif.
Cairo: a 70-year-old building of once-luxury flats with tenements on the roof. Zika, an aging libertine, feuds with his sister. Pius Haj Azzam takes a second wife, in secret, to satisfy sexual drive within religious bounds. Bothayna, poor and beautiful, supports her family, wanting to do so with dignity intact. Her former fiancé, Taha, the janitor's son, humiliated by the police, turns to fundamentalism. Hatem, a gay editor, seduces and corrupts a young man from the sticks. Two brothers, Copts, one a tailor and one Zika's factotum, connive for property. Allah is on most everyone's lips, and corruption is in their hearts. European values, both refined and worldly, provide a subtext.