The Aquarium
2008, Arabic. Directed by Yousry Nasrallah.
Youssef is a hotshot anesthesiologist who often sleeps in his car for privacy. Laila is the careerist host of a late night radio call-in show. These two members of Cairo's elite, lost souls traveling parallel paths of longing and disconnection, are the principal fish in Yousry Nasrallah's The Aquarium, a meditation on the intellectual capital of the Middle East, now bent under the sway of repression in all its forms.
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- Arabic
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- Released
- 8 February 2008
- Original title
- جنينة الأسماك
- Country
- Germany, Egypt, France
- Written by
- Yousry Nasrallah, Nasser Abdel-Rahman
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The Aquarium runs 106 minutes (1h 46m).
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The Aquarium isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 8 February 2008. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Aquarium?
The Aquarium (2008) was directed by Yousry Nasrallah and stars Hend Sabry, Amr Waked, Gamil Ratib.