CAIRO STATION (1958) - Criterion's DVD & Blu-ray Release of Classic Egyptian Drama

Cairo Station 1958 New On Dvd And Bluray Criterion

Product Description: Youssef Chahine established his international reputation with this masterpiece, which, though initially a commercial failure in Egypt, would become one of the most influential and celebrated works in all of Arab cinema. The director himself stars as Kenawi, a disabled newspaper hawker whose obsession with a sultry drink seller (Hind Rostom, known as the “Marilyn Monroe of Arabia”) leads to tragedy of operatic proportions on the streets of Cairo. Blending elements of neorealism with provocative noir-melodrama, Cairo Station is a work of raw populist poetry that explores the individual’s search for a place in Egypt’s new postrevolutionary political order.

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Director: Youssef Chahine

Starring: Farid Shawki, Hind Rostom, Youssef Chahine

Genre: Crime, Drama

Runtime: 77 min

Rating: Not Rated

Language: Arabic

Studio: Criterion

Home Video Release Date: August 12, 2025

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DVD - Criterion Collection

Blu-ray - Criterion Collection

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Codec: MPEG-2
Resolution: 480i
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Encoding Format: 16:9
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)

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Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
Resolution: 1080p
Aspect Ratio: 1.37:1
Region: Region A/1

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Blu-ray: None

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DVD: Dolby Digital Mono
Blu-ray: LPCM Mono

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DVD: English

Blu-ray: English

SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS

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New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New 2K digital restoration of Cairo as Seen by Chahine (1991), a short documentary by Youssef Chahine, with an introduction by film scholar Joseph Fahim
New interview with Fahim
Chahine . . . Why? (2009), a documentary on the director and Cairo Station
Excerpt from Chahine’s appearance at the 1998 Midnight Sun Film Festival
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by Fahim