The 67th Summer

Synopsis

In 1967, Ali Ragheb, a young man from Cairo, receives a letter from an Austrian girl named Liz – a response to his ad looking for a pen pal. Ali's attempts to become a pianist in a family of bureaucrats then gain a purpose when Liz drives him toward a difficult goal: a concert in front of an audience. A friendship develops across rapidly changing worlds, in an attempt to survive war, peace, fallout, and intoxication.

Production Facts

"The 67th Summer" is the third feature film by Egyptian director Abu Bakr Shawky, whose debut film "Yomeddine" was in the main competition at Cannes in 2018. His second feature, "Hajjan", premiered at Toronto in 2023.

Starring Amir El-Masry ("Club Zero", "The Night Manager") and Valerie Pachner ("A Hidden Life", "The King’s Man").

The film is written and directed by Abu Bakr Shawky. It is produced by Julie Viez, Cinenovo (France), in co-production with Olivier Guerpillon and Marta Reguera, Fox in the Snow (Sweden), Film i Väst, Mohamed Hefzy, Film Clinic (Egypt), and Alexander Glehr and Johanna Scherz, Film AG (Austria).

Parts of the postproduction are carried out in Västra Götaland.

I huvudrollerna syns Amir El-Masry ("Club Zero", "The Night Manager") och Valerie Pachner ("A Hidden Life", "The King’s Man").