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Il Consiglio d'Egitto (2002)

Name: Il Consiglio d'Egitto
Genre: Drama
Released: 2010-01-03T20:30:28+01:00
Cast: Silvio Orlando, Tommaso Ragno, Renato Carpentieri

Drama | 138 minutes

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Genre: Drama

Duration: 138 minuten

Alternative title: The Council of Egypt

Country: Italy / France / Hungary

Directed by: Emidio Greco

Stars: Silvio Orlando, Tommaso Ragno, Renato Carpentieri

IMDb score: 6,7 (76)

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Il Consiglio d'Egitto plot

At the court of the Viceroy of Palermo in 1782, no one knows Arabic. The Moroccan envoy in Naples is shipwrecked and is shown around by the lower cleric Giuseppe Vella, a Maltese who knows a little Arabic. This shows an old Arabic handwriting that the Moroccan immediately recognizes as a biography of Mohammed. Later on, Vella rewrites this codex, changing the order of the sheets and also all kinds of letters. With this new, forged text, he wants to support those who want social change on the basis of the Enlightenment, in particular the abolition of the privileges of the nobility. Rebel leaders try to bring about a revolt, but it fails.