在这部纳赛尔的共和国：缔造现代埃及纪录片片中,纳赛尔把自己的国家从殖民统治下解放出来，使埃及成为了阿拉伯世界的领导，并且带领数百万人脱离贫困。
埃及人称他穷人之父，可有人说他给我们面包换走了自由。纳赛尔当权的18年间放出了他自己也无法控制的力量。这些力量还在把人民带上街头，祈求他的遗泽，或抗议反对。
NASSER'S REPUBLIC: THE MAKING OF MODERN EGYPT is the first film for an American audience about Gamal Abdel Nasser, one of the Arab world's most transformative leaders. In 1952, as an unknown young Egyptian colonel, Nasser led a coup that became a revolution. Over the next 18 years Nasser emerged as a titanic figure, and as a champion of Arab progress and African liberation. But what he could not offer was democracy; instead, he established the region's first and much emulated military authoritarian regime. A man of enormous charisma and ambition, Nasser became caught in the coils of his own power, dying at 52 with many dreams unrealized. The Arab Spring and its aftermath are his legacy. Director Michal Goldman (UMM KULTHUM, A VOICE LIKE EGYPT) filmed NASSER'S REPUBLIC in Egypt between 2011 and 2015. During this period of turmoil, Egyptians argued passionately about their history as a way to see what course to follow in the future. It is their voices-peasants and professors, secularists and Islamists-that drive this film.
