Olivier Varenne

かつてボリショイ交響楽団の天才指揮者だったアンドレ（アレクセイ・グシュコフ）は、今はさえない劇場清掃員として働いていた。ある日、出演できなくなった楽団の代わりのオーケストラを探しているというFAXを目にした彼は、とんでもないことを思いつく。それは、いまや落ちぶれてしまったかつての仲間を集めて楽団を結成し、コンサートに出場するというものだった。

Beowulf is a wanderer who learns about a man-eating creature called Grendel, which comes in the night to devour warriors trapped at the Outpost. The Outpost is ruled by Hrothgar. He has a daughter, whose husband may have been murdered by the Outpost's master of arms.

Set in 1987 against the backdrop of a hunger strike by the Egyptian film industry, Chahine himself steps in to play Yehia, the famed Egyptian director whose life is chronicled in "Alexandria, Why?" and "An Egyptian Story". Obsessed with Amr, the handsome actor he discovered and cast as his alter-ego in parts one and two of The Alexandria Trilogy, Yehia pressures Amr to star in various film projects that change even as Yehia's perception of the young actor begins to change. He first casts Amr as Hamlet, which the actor deems too demanding for his talents, then as the lead in a musical biopic of demigod Alexander the Great, who founded the city of Alexandria in 332 B.C.