The Stories is a decades-spanning Egyptian family saga and love story set between the late 1960s and 1980s. The film follows Ahmed, a young man from a Middle-Class Cairo family who dreams of becoming a concert pianist. During the tense summer of 1967, as war looms over Egypt, he begins a pen-pal correspondence with an Austrian woman named Elizabeth (“Liz”). A semi-autobiographical film based on the director’s parents and how they met.
Title: The Stories
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DOWNLOAD MOVIEGenre: Drama, Music, Comedy
Runtime: 120 minutes
Release Date: 2026-06-17
Language: German, English, Arabic, Russian
Country of Origin: Egypt
Rating: 7.5/10
Cast: Amir El-Masry, Valerie Pachner, Nelly Karim, Karim Kassem, Ahmed Kamal, Sherif Desouqy, Hassan El-Adl, Amr Abed, Ahmed ElAzaar, Khaled Mokhtar, Osama Abdullah, Sabry Fawaz
Director: Abu Bakr Shawky
Producer: Julie Viez, Mohamed Hefzy, Alexander Glehr, Johanna Scherz, Shahinaz Al Akkad, Ahmed Badawy, Olivier Guerpillon, Marta Reguera, Kristina Börjeson, Benoît Roland, Jackie Bernon, Sherif Rizkallah, Julie Flament, Rasha Aburish, Jessica Khoury