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 "class": "screen",
 "slug": "al-muhajir-1994",
 "label": {
  "en": "The Emigrant",
  "ar": "المهاجر"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "فيلم يوسف شاهين المستوحى من قصة يوسف في مصر القديمة؛ أثار معركة قضائية وإعلامية في مصر حول تصوير أنبياء القرآن على الشاشة، فجُرّد بطلُه من الاسم القرآني.",
  "en": "Youssef Chahine's retelling of the Joseph story set in ancient Egypt; its release sparked a legal battle in Egypt over depicting Qur'anic prophets on screen."
 },
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 "wings": [],
 "regions": [],
 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "prophets",
  "dissent-heresy-freethought"
 ],
 "data": {
  "format": "film",
  "relevance": "substantial",
  "titles": [
   {
    "lang": "ar",
    "value": "المهاجر",
    "kind": "original"
   },
   {
    "lang": "fr",
    "value": "L'Émigré",
    "kind": "release"
   },
   {
    "lang": "en",
    "value": "The Emigrant",
    "kind": "release"
   }
  ],
  "released": {
   "edtf": "1994",
   "calendar": "gregorian",
   "precision": "year"
  },
  "countries": [
   "eg",
   "fr"
  ],
  "languages": {
   "original": [
    "ar"
   ]
  },
  "depiction": {
   "prophet": "not-applicable",
   "companions": "not-applicable",
   "imams": "not-applicable",
   "note": "The hero is named Ram, not Joseph — the film was made after the Prophet-depiction controversy it generated."
  },
  "approach": "historical-drama",
  "sensitivity": "contested",
  "reception": [
   {
    "kind": "ban",
    "where": [
     "eg"
    ],
    "status": "historical",
    "note": "A court order suspended Egyptian screenings; Chahine contested it, and the ban was later lifted on appeal.",
    "sources": []
   }
  ],
  "external_ids": {
   "wikidata": "Q3205314",
   "imdb": "tt0110545"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/wikidata",
   "source/imdb"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 2,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High), screen-index lane; existence, year and identifiers verified against Wikidata and IMDb, 2026-10-16"
  }
 },
 "prose": {},
 "degree": 16,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
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   "to": "person/khaled-el-nabawy",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/michel-piccoli",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/mahmoud-hemida",
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  },
  {
   "to": "person/yousra",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/safia-el-emari",
   "type": "features",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/youssef-chahine",
   "type": "directed_by",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/youssef-chahine",
   "type": "written_by",
   "inverse": false
  },
  {
   "to": "person/khaled-youssef",
   "type": "written_by",
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  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "event/musaylima-claims-prophethood",
  "concept/al-amin",
  "concept/khalq-al-quran",
  "concept/marahil-al-dawa",
  "concept/maratib-al-wahy",
  "concept/mawad-al-dawa",
  "event/al-dawa-al-sirriyya",
  "event/building-of-the-kaaba"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}