Starting over Again few days, the Egyptian authorities arrested in internment camps more than 1000 people among Jews, European and political opponents. The foreign and Jewish communities became the main target. In 1970 after Nasser’s death, Anwar Al Sadat became President of Egypt. His policy consisted in a program of open doors to the western world and to Israel. On 19 November 1977, Sadat became the first Arab leader to ever visit Israel officially meeting with Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The peace between the two countries was signed in 1979. The film took nine months of work, it has been shot directly in
Sadat (miniseries) to his meetings with Menachem Begin (Barry Morse). While the resulting Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty normalizes relations between Egypt and the west, in the midst of the Israeli occupation of Palestine greatly alienates Sadat from the rest of the Arab world. On October 6, 1981, Sadat is assassinated as he and several foreign dignitaries review a military procession marking the 1973 crossing of the Suez. The film was negatively received in Egypt and was accused there of distorting history and slandering the Egyptian people, and was also criticized for the casting of a black actor, Lou Gossett, Jr., as Sadat. The