A Cairo idol gets pulled into the machinery of power in Eagles of the Republic, a 2025 Egypt-set political thriller from Danish-Swedish director Tarik Saleh.
What is Eagles of the Republic about?
George Fahmy has spent decades as the country's most bankable leading man, and that fame is exactly why the state wants him. When officials commission a propaganda film and insist he take the lead, refusal is not a real option. Fahmy accepts, and the assignment quietly rewrites his life: film sets give way to private dinners with generals, and public loyalty gives way to a dangerous entanglement with the wife of the officer running the production. Saleh, who previously turned Egyptian security-state stories into tense international cinema, builds the film as a slow tightening of the screws rather than a single dramatic reveal, following how an actor's charm becomes leverage the moment someone with real power decides to use it.
About the cast
Fares Fares leads as Fahmy, working again with Saleh after their earlier collaborations on Egyptian-set material. Lyna Khoudri and Zineb Triki fill out the film's inner circle, with Amr Waked, Cherien Dabis, Ahmed Khairi, Nael Ali and Sherwan Haji rounding out a cast drawn from across the region's film industries rather than a single national scene.
Context & significance
Eagles of the Republic was produced across Denmark, Finland, France and Sweden, a co-production structure common for Arabic-language films whose subject matter makes local financing difficult. The film sits alongside a run of festival-circuit dramas examining how authoritarian states use celebrity and culture as tools of control, told from inside the industry rather than from a distance. Its audience reception has settled into the solidly-regarded range rather than a runaway favorite, reflecting a film more admired for its craft than universally embraced.
Watching Eagles of the Republic on Ktime
Eagles of the Republic streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, so Farsi-speaking viewers can watch the film in either format. A free K-Time account is all that's required to start watching; the film's page itself is open to browse without logging in first, in keeping with K-Time's Farsi-first approach to international cinema for the diaspora.