Why was Cairo Calm
1982•42m•Released
DocumentaryHistory
It begins in the days after Sadat's assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and grief in the United States at the death of the heroic president. All the western leaders then travelled to Cairo to say goodbye to the man who had courageously changed the course of history. But then they found that practically no Egyptians turned up to the funeral. And the western politicians and the American TV reporters couldn't understand why. The documentary tries to find the answer.
Writer
Ofra Bikel
Studio
BBC
Cast
Anwar Sadat
jehan el sadat
Saad Eddin Ibrahim
Salah Jahin
Abla Kamel
Nawal El Saadawi
lewis Awad
Walter Cronkite
Ismail Sabri Abdullah
Tarek Nour
sayid marei
Frank Sinatra
Mustafa Amin
hossam fakhr
Production
Company
BBC
Producer
Ofra Bikel
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