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Nelly Karim to Star in "Casablanca" Sequel


Tue 22 Jun 2021 | 09:26 PM
Yara Sameh

Egyptian actress, Nelly Karim is set to star in actor Amir Karara's highly-anticipated sequel to the 2019 film “Casablanca”.

Karim made a cameo in the first film and is set to play the female lead role opposite Karara in the second.

Screenwriter Hisham Hilal and director by Peter Mimi are returning for the sequel, which sees the cast traveling from Morocco to Barcelona, the cosmopolitan capital of Spain's Catalonia region, where the events of the second part begin.

The first part of “Casablanca” was written by  Hilal, directed by Mimi, and produced by Synergy Films and Walid Mansour.

It also starred Ghada Adel, Amr Abdel Gelil, Eyad Nassar, Lebleba, Mahmoud El-Bezzawy, Ahmed Dash, and Ahmed Fahmy.

The plot revolved around three Alexandrian men who work as pirates. They get involved in a dangerous mission against mafia men, after robbing a large diamond shipment, but things get a turn for the worse as one of them decides to go rogue and flee to Morocco.

“Casablanca” was shot in Marrakech, Casablanca, Safaga, and Alexandria.