Why was Cairo Calm

Why was Cairo Calm (1982) is a documentary, history film.

It begins in the days after Sadat's assassination in 1981 by an islamist cell of army officers. The American media had led an outpouring of shock and grief in the United States at the death of the heroic president. All the western leaders then travelled to Cairo to say goodbye to the man who had courageously changed the course of history. But then they found that practically no Egyptians turned up to the funeral. And the western politicians and the American TV reporters couldn't understand why. The documentary tries to find the answer.

Cast

Anwar Sadat

jehan el sadat

Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Salah Jahin

Abla Kamel

Nawal El Saadawi

lewis Awad

Walter Cronkite

Ismail Sabri Abdullah

Tarek Nour

sayid marei

Frank Sinatra