Cairo-set Cannes thriller takes aim at Egypt’s president

Director Tarik Saleh said he decided that, if he was going to address Egyptian politics head-on in his latest film, it needed to include Egypt’s current president.

In his explosive political thriller “Eagles of the Republic”, which premiered in Cannes on Monday, the Swedish-Egyptian filmmaker used real footage of President Abdelfattah al-Sisi and even found a lookalike to briefly play him.

“I don’t have a choice because he’s a constant. He will sit there until he dies,” the Sweden-based…