Review: “A Boy from Heaven” by Tariq Saleh, a powerful spy drama – Culture News in the first part

nickname: boy from heaven
direction: Tariq Saleh
script: Tariq Saleh
the actor: Faris Faris, Tawfiq Barhoum, Sherwan Haji and others
It can be viewed at: Cinemas from November 18th
rank: 4 out of 5

Boy from heaven is a solid film, with a screenplay that could have ended up on the bookshelf next to classic spy novels. It is an exciting story with an international setting. Starting out at sea in a small wooden boat, Adam is the son of a fisherman and rows with his father to whiten the nets.

His reading chief later made him the first to get an opportunity to study at the large and influential Sunni university of Al-Ahsar in Cairo.

Where the strong imam and leader dies and Adam finds himself in the middle of a power struggle over who will succeed him. The system wants to make sure that the right person is elected.

The fisherman’s young son is under pressure to become the eyes and ears of the regime within the university. Poor and dangerous position.

Tarek Saleh’s screenplay won an award at the Cannes Film Festival. The story is dense, and the movie scenes are demanding. We move in a closed world, where the security services and religious representatives are watching each other. The dialogue is enriched with oracle lines from the Quran which can make the whole story take a new turn. And everything turns out to be great views of the university’s enormous courtyard.

Fares Fares plays a colonel in the security apparatus. Busy, in an oversized suit, brings some air to the compact story as he maneuvers between a stern superior and the fisherman’s young son.

Boy from Heaven’s rating would be four strong people.

Bjorn Jansson
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