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Director : Chaerul Umam
Writer : Habiburrahman El Shirazy
Stars : M.Kholidi Assadil Alam as AZZAM
Oki Setiana Dewi as ANNA
Alice Sofie Norin as ELIANA
Andi Arsyil Rahman P. as FURQON
Meyda Safira as HUSNA


Ketika Cinta Bertasbih, a film directed by Chaerul Umam based on mega best seller book in South East Asia and a masterpiece from Indonesian writer, Habiburahman El Shirazy Ketika Cinta Bertasbih. He also write a best seller book before, Ayat-Ayat Cinta and was made it a film and become a box office film in Indonesia and Malaysia.
Ketika Cinta Bertasbih, it’s told about of the main character, Khairul Azzam (M. Kholidi Asadil Alam), A 28th young man, an Indonesian collage student in Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt. He must finished he's study until 9 years, because after he's father die. Azzam become a patriarch otomaticly. An expects to defray him self in Cairo, he also carring his family in Solo, Central Java Indonesia.
The situation makes him to get hard work day by day, in there he produce Tempe. Azzam selling the tempe for Indonesian people in there and it's make it Azzam become a popular guy in Ambassador family of Indonesia In there. One day the Ambassador daugther, Eliana (Alice Sofie Norin) invite him to be a apart of Indonesian Traditional Food and Culture day in University of Alexandria. And the moment made it two of them fall in love, but it's change when Eliana intend to give a french kiss to Azzam, because he helping make it Indonesian traditional food from Jogja for her father, and her father love it. For Azzam, french kiss is disaster, because in Islam, it wrong and sin when a man and a woman getting kiss before they marriage. Azzam is religious guy, living with Al Quran as he's rule life (all the Muslim in the world, absolutely).
From Eliana Driver's, he has an info about right women to be his wife, he living with her uncle in Cairo, Egypt. Her also an student in Al Azhar University, Cairo Egypt. Her name is Anna Althafunnisa (Oki Setiana Dewi). But the situations unside with him. Anna Althafunnisa was proposed to marriage by he's best friend, Furqon ( Andi Arsyil Rahman).
In the other side, Furqon have a big problem. He has HIV AIDS in his body. He knows about disease a little while Anna says "I do" to be his wife. It's so complicated for him, he really falls in love but the other side he won't spread the dying virus to others but he won't Anna getting marriage with other guy too.
Furqon is a good guy, he is a religious man, and he has HIV AIDS with accident. Mysterious girl from Italy, inject the virus when he sleep in his room. Egypt police department give the expression extortion crime in behind the story that expressed with black latter when the Italian girls require $ 200.000 from Furqon.
A long story for them to getting true loves. And this film giving much religious values for people was watching.
Screenplay of Ketika Cinta Bertasbih written by Imam Tantowi and produce by SinemArt Picture. Need a long time and hard work to find all the character in this film. SinemArt Picture was arranged the audition in several big city in Indonesia for several month. And spending a lot of money to produce this movie, $4.000.000.
The setting of this movie is true depiction of how it's was told in the novel. The audience will be spoiled with beautiful imageries of the Nile River, Pyramid, Sphinxes, and the city of Alexandria. The breath taking view of Mediterranean Sea and Qait Bay tower are only some of wonderful Egyptian Landscapes we'll find in this movie. And more the location of this movie also takes it in Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. This movie is worth it to watching.