Barsoum Looking for a Job is a 1923 Egyptian silent film written and directed by Mohammed Bayoumi,[1][2][3] and stars Bishara Wakim.
A boy enters the abandoned house where the protagonist sleeps in a straw den, but is beaten by a man who surprises him as he leaves.
Barsoum makes the sign of the cross and prays in front of sacred Christian images and the photo of revolution leader Saad Zaghloul.
[7] The topic of this movie is an appeal for tolerance between Muslims and Christians in Egypt during the 1919 revolution.
We see Barsoum pray in front of a photograph of Saint Mary, under which there are the crescent, the cross, and the photograph of Saad Zaghloul, the leader of the revolution, showing the motto of unity between Muslims and Christians, one of the slogans of the revolution.