Barsoum Looking for a Job

Barsoum Looking for a Job — Plot

It is the story of two friends, one a Muslim, Sheik Metwalli, and the other a Coptic Christian, Barsoum, both unemployed, suffering from hunger, and competing for a job in a bank. When the bank’s director mistakes them for wealthy businessmen, he takes them to his home for a lavish lunch. But upon learning their actual status, he chases them out of the house. At the film’s conclusion, as the two friends rest on the sidewalk absorbing their long-overdue meal, they are arrested by a policeman.

• Release date
• January 1, 1923
• Runtime
• 16 min
• Genres
• Comedy, Drama
• Director
• Mohamed Bayoumi

Barsoum Looking for a Job — Cast

A

Adel Hameed Barsoum Bishara Wakim Metwalli

F

Fawzi Mounib Fardous Hasan

V

Victoria Kohin Sayed Mustafa

M

Muhammad Yousuf

A

Abdel Hamid Zaki