DVD Release: Scheherazade, Tell Me A Story

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Laurence
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DVD Release Date: April 24, 2012
Price: DVD $29.95
Studio: Facets

Scheherazade Tel Me A Story movie sceneThought its title refers to the myths and lore of the Middle East, the 2009 Egyptian film drama Scheherazade: Tell me A Story tells a timely tale that could have been ripped from today’s headlines.

Hebba (Mona Zaki), a television talk-show host, produces a successful political program on a privately owned network. Her husband, Karim (Hassan El Raddad), is the deputy editor-in-chief of a government-controlled newspaper. When Karim’s promotion is threatened by his wife’s meddling in opposition politics on her program, he sweet-talks her into avoiding controversy and devoting her program to other topics. She soon begins a series of shows about women’s issues, revealing the stories of strong, resilient women who, like Scheherazade in A Thousand and One Nights, tell their tales to stay alive.

Directed by Yousry Nasrallah, Scheherazade: Tell me A Story played at a handful of international films festival, including the biggies in Venice and Toronto, before enjoying a limited release to theaters in August 2011.

The movie is presented in Arabic with English subtitles in the two-DVD set, which also includes two additional films: the 2000 feature Angels Paradise by prominent Egyptian filmmaker Ossam Fawsi and the 2002 short Rotating Square by Ahmed Hassouna.

Here’s the trailer from the movie:

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.