Egypt's cinematic gems: The Mummy (The Night of Counting the Years)
It's a sort of Citizen Kane of Egyptian cinema, a technical masterpiece with a formidable reputation and an unhurried pace.Until yesterday I had only seen short scenes of Shady Abdel Salam's Al-Mummia (The Mummy, aka The Night of Counting the Years, 1970). It was his first try as a director,