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What is the name of the 1969 film — often called the 'Treasure' — directed by Shadi Abdel Salam, a visually exquisite meditation on death, memory, and the despoliation of antiquities set in 1881 Luxor?

Shadi Abdel Salam's 'Al-Mummia' ('The Mummy', released internationally as 'The Night of Counting the Years') is a masterwork of sparse visual poetry — based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasoul family, who secretly traded royal tomb artifacts, it is the only Egyptian film ever selected for preservation in a major Western archive (Criterion Collection).

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