The daughter of Egypt’s slain president Anwar Sadat has filed legal complaints against the producers of an American film which portrays a dog named after her father, her lawyer said on Saturday.
Roqeya Sadat’s complaint against the makers of the Hollywood film “I Love You, Man” will be heard by a Cairo court on September 1, lawyer Samir Sabri told AFP.
Sadat was shot dead by Islamic militants at a military parade in Cairo on October 6, 1981, three years after he signed the 1978 Camp David Accords that led to a 1979 peace treaty with Israel, the first by an Arab country.
His daughter is furious over the movie in which the leading character played by Jason Segel names his dog Anwar Sadat, claiming that he resembles the slain Egyptian president.
Roqeya Sadat has described the movie as “insulting” to the memory of her father and was quoted by Egypt’s office news agency MENA as saying that it also “undermines Egypt and its role (of leadership) in the Middle East.”
The film, a romantic comedy directed by John Hamburg for DreamWorks, was released in Egypt earlier this year but is no longer showing in movie theatres.
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His daughter is furious over the movie in which the leading character played by Jason Segel names his dog Anwar Sadat, claiming that he resembles the slain Egyptian president.
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What percentage of the movie going population outside of Egypt will even know who Anwar Sadat is? If the producers were going for funny, then they probably lost the audience.
Re: Sadat daughter takes US film to court over dog named Anwar
That's just offensive and in poor taste.
what can u expect from the director who is Jewish?