Rate: In Search of Oil and Sand
Using a scale from 0-lifeless to 10-ecstatic, please rate activities that apply to this movie.![](images/no-image-movie-mid.png)
In Search of Oil and Sand
[BE THE FIRST TO RATE THIS MOVIE]Calorie Rating: 81
Released: 2012-10-13
Running Time: 58 Minutes
Studios: Middle West Films, Sarakene,
Oil and Sand was an extravagant film made by members of the Egyptian royal family and a few friends and relatives in 1952 about a coup d'état, shot just weeks before the royals were overthrown in a real coup. The completed Technicolor film was destroyed by the director in fear that it would be used as propaganda against the ousted monarchy. Following Mahmoud Sabit, the man who found the original 8mm reels and who is himself a relation of the late king of Egypt, this documentary focuses on the reconstruction of the film's story, its array of real life players, and the political circumstances surrounding the shoot. This uncanny marriage of fiction and reality reveals that the original film not only managed to unwittingly predict the fate of the King, but also foresaw the next 60 years of relations between Egypt and the West.