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((Infobox film
| name           = Chitchat on the Nile<br>(Adrift on the Nile)
| image          = Adrift on the Nile.jpg
 
| caption        = 
| director       = [[Hussein Kamal]]
| producer       = 
| writer         = 
| narrator       = 
| starring       = [[Emad Hamdy]]<br/>[[Ahmed Ramzy]]<br/>[[Magda El-Khatib]] <br/>[[Adel Adham]]<br/>[[Mervat Amin]]<br/>[[Suhair Ramzi]]<br/>[[Neamat Mokhtar]]
| music          = Ali Ismail
| cinematography = Mostapha Emam
| editing        = Rashida Abdel Salam
| distributor    = 
| released       = ((Film date|1971))
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| country        = [[Egypt]]
| language       = Arabic
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'''''Chitchat on the Nile''''' (((lang-ar|ثرثرة فوق النيل))) (''Adrift on the Nile'') is a 1971 film based on the 1966 novel  ''[[Adrift on the Nile]]'' by [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] [[List of Nobel laureates|Nobel Laureate]] [[Naguib Mahfouz]]. The film is a member in Top 100 Egyptian films list.

== Plot ==
((cquote|''Al-[[hashish]] is forbidden while [[alcohol (drug)|alcohol]] isn't? Why? Both are bad for the health? Both are intoxicating?''))

The film addresses the decadence of [[Egypt]]ian [[society]] during the [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] era.

It tells the story of a simple [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] civil servant, Anis (played by [[Emad Hamdi]]), who cannot tolerate the hypocrisy of the [[Politics of Egypt|Egyptian government]] (for whom he works at the Ministry of Health) and the illiteracy of the [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] public and decides to hide from all the problems in the country by taking up smoking [[hashish]] in a [[hookah|shisha]], a popular smoking habit in [[Egypt]], to escape from reality.

Anis (who used to work as a teacher) meets with an old student, Ragab (actor [[Ahmed Ramzy]]), by chance. Ragab invites him to the small boat in the [[Nile]]. And Anis discovers soon enough that he is not the only person who smokes shisha but a bunch of other [[elite]], [[middle class]] and [[low class]] people are all on the boat. He soon discovers that everyone is smoking to forget the reality and hypocrisy of Egyptian life.

==Political background==
The film was released during the era of the government of [[Anwar Al Sadat]] and was quickly removed from the market because it was seen as a criticism of the [[Gamal Abdel Nasser|Nasser]] period, when films that did not conform with Nasser's politics and ideology were often suppressed. [[Anwar al-Sadat]] did not want to upset the [[Egyptians|Egyptian]] people, some of whom still loved and respected Nasser.

The films deals frankly with the issue of drug addiction, as well as the decadence that obtained during the late Nasser era. The film was produced in 1971, and was unsuccessful financially, as it was frequently banned in the [[Middle East]] and also in the West (mainly Europe). It only gained acclaim 35 years later. It is still banned in many countries, especially in the Arab world.

The film is now distributed by Founoon and is subtitled in French and English.

== External links ==
* ((IMDb title|0356117|Chitchat on the Nile <br>(Adrift on the Nile)))

((Naguib Mahfouz))

[[Category:1971 films]]
[[Category:1971 comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:1970s Arabic-language films]]
[[Category:Egyptian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films based on Egyptian novels]]
[[Category:Films directed by Hussein Kamal]]
[[Category:Films based on works by Naguib Mahfouz]]
[[Category:Egyptian comedy-drama films]]
[[Category:Nile in fiction]]

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