Road to Eilat (

Egyptian Arabic Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian ( ar, العامية المصرية, ), or simply Masri (also Masry) (), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic dialect in Egypt. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and ...

: الطريق إلى إيلات

translit Informal or ''ad hoc'' romanizations of Cyrillic have been in use since the early days of electronic communications, starting from early e-mail and bulletin board systems.

: ''Al-Tareek Ela Eilat or El Tareeq Ela Eilat''

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: ''The Road to Eilat'') is a

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Egyptian Egyptian describes something of, from, or related to Egypt. Egyptian or Egyptians may refer to: Nations and ethnic groups * Egyptians, a national group in North Africa ** Egyptian culture, a complex and stable culture with thousands of years of ...

war film War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about navy, naval, air force, air, or army, land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle s ...

directed by Inaam Mohammed Ali and features

Salah Zulfikar Salah El Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar ( ar, صلاح ذو الفقار; ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a police officer in the Egyptian National Police, before becoming an ac ...

in a special appearance as Admiral

Fouad Abu Zikry Admiral Fouad Mohamed Abou Zikry ( ar, فؤاد محمد ابوذكري; November 17, 1923 – January 26, 1983) was a career military man, rising in the ranks of the Egyptian military, and then the ministry of defense, ending his career where ...

, the commander of Egyptian Navy. The film stars

Ezzat El Alaili Ezzat El Alaili ( ar, عزت العلايلي) (15 September 1934 – 5 February 2021) was an Egyptian actor who starred in over 300 films, TV series, and theatre plays since the 1960s. He had his bachelor's degree from the Higher Institute of The ...

and Nabil Al-Halfawi. The film is Salah Zulfikar’s final film role.

Plot

The film takes place during the

War of Attrition The War of Attrition ( ar, حرب الاستنزاف, Ḥarb al-Istinzāf; he, מלחמת ההתשה, Milhemet haHatashah) involved fighting between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) and their allies from ...

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, before the

October War The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by Eg ...

, specifically in July. The film deals with the Egyptian raids on the Israeli port of Eilat, operations carried out by a group of frogmen belonging to the Egyptian Navy, when they attacked the Eilat War Port and were able to destroy two warships: Beit Sheva, Bat Yam and the war pier (the two ships were attacking the Egyptian positions in the

Red Sea The Red Sea ( ar, البحر الأحمر - بحر القلزم, translit=Modern: al-Baḥr al-ʾAḥmar, Medieval: Baḥr al-Qulzum; or ; Coptic: ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϩⲁϩ ''Phiom Enhah'' or ⲫⲓⲟⲙ ⲛ̀ϣⲁⲣⲓ ''Phiom ǹšari''; ...

after the Israeli forces took over the Sinai), then the return of these frogs safely after completing their mission successfully, after the martyrdom of one hero.

Film crew

* Screenplay: Fayez Ghaly * Directed by: Inaam Muhammad Ali * Produced by: Production Sector

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* Producer: Mamdouh El-Leithy * Producers: **Muhammad Khamis **Emad El-Sheikh **Muhammad Tawfiq **Ali Mahmoud **Ahmed Hamid * Music score: Yasser Abdel Rahman * Palestinian dialect references: Majeh Badrakhan * Hebrew dialect references: Tawheed Majdi * Makeup: **Ramadan Imam **Imam Ramadan **Muhammad Ramadan * Hairdresser: Mamdouh Omar * Clothes: Ahmed Salem * Accessory: Amin Mostafa * Executors of the decor: **Muhammad Al-Boushi **Muhammad Zaki **Sayed Amin **Ahmed Othman **Sharif Al-Salami **Abdel Hamid Abdel Fattah **Tariq Al-Boushi **Ibrahim Harb **Mohamed Abdel-Alim **Ahmed Abdel-Gawad **Salah Abu Al-Majd **Hassan Ali Hassan **Saad Ali Esawy **Muhammad Tammam Al-Bushy **Mahmoud Hassan **Mohamed Abdel-Sabour * Voice recorder **Adeeb Fouad **Ahmed Abdel Khaleq * Assistant Mixing: Hiam Mohamed * Photography: Sobhi Basta * Clacket: Ibrahim Bayoumi * Registrar: Mohsen Abdelazim

Military Experts

* Retired Major General Ibrahim Dakhakhni * Retired Admiral Mustafa Taher

From the
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* Rear Admiral: Farouk Mohsab * Commodore: Nabawi Shalaby * Admiral: Abdel Azim Tawash * Naval Colonel: Mustafa Abdel-Raouf Al-Haw * Marine Major: Ashraf Mohamed * Naval Captain: Mohamed Sharif, Military Training Supervisor

Cast

Primary cast

as Admiral Fouad Abou Zikry, Commander of the Egyptian Navy *

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Radi, commander of the operation * Nabil Al-Halfawi as Colonel Mahmoud, the training commander * Mohamed El-Dafrawi as Chief of Staff of the Egyptian Navy * Mohamed Abdel-Gawad as Captain Hatim * Hisham Abdullah as Staff Sergeant Navy Alish * Nasir Saif as Rear

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* Abdullah Mahmoud as

Martyr A martyr (, ''mártys'', "witness", or , ''marturia'', stem , ''martyr-'') is someone who suffers persecution and death for advocating, renouncing, or refusing to renounce or advocate, a religious belief or other cause as demanded by an externa ...

Marine Sergeant Morsi Al-Zanati * Hani Kamal as

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Marine Hussain * Mohamed Saad as Sergeant Qenawyi * Alaa Morsi as Samir, boat maintenance engineer * Tariq Al-Nahry as Galal from the Auxiliary Group * Farouk Aita as Fawaz from the Supporting Group * Suleiman Eid as Salem, desert guide *

Madeleine Tabar Madeleine Tabar ( ar, مادلين طبر) is a Lebanese actress. She appeared in '' Road to Eilat'' (1994). Biography Tabar was born in Beirut on 26 February 1958. She studied Public Relations and Advertising at the Lebanese University. She beg ...

as Maryam, one of the guides * Medhat Morsi as Director of Egyptian Military Intelligence * Yousry Mustafa as Operation Officer in

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Supporting cast

* Amin Hashem as employee responsible for

Egyptian Radio Egyptian Radio also known as the Egyptian Radio's General Program (إذاعة البرنامج العام transliterated as Iza'at El-Bernameg Al-Aam) also popularly known as Radio Cairo (in Arabic إذاعة القاهرة transliterated as Iza'at ...

Sherine Wagdy Sherine Wagdy ( ar, شيرين وجدي) (born as Sherine Farouk Salem ( ar, شيرين فاروق سالم) in Cairo, Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a List of transcontinental countries, transcon ...

as Captain Mahmoud's wife * Nahed Rushdie as Captain Radi's wife * Alan Zoghby as Israeli officer * Muhammad Mahmoud as Abu Jihad, a Palestinian fighter * Tariq Al-Amir * Ibrahim Balousha * Muhammad Ammar * Youssef Hussein * Muhammad Safwat * Tawheed Magdy * Magdy Suleiman

References

External links

Road to Eilat on elCinema
* 1994 films Films shot in Egypt Egyptian war films 1990s Arabic-language films 1990s war films {{Egypt-film-stub