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The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.Read moreLess
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
The story
The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
Cast & crew
Shams El-BarudyNaima
Yousuf ShaabanRaouf the painter
Muhammad al-ArabiAhmed Taher Abdel Salam
Nemat MokhtarCast
Fayez HalawaCast
Naima ElSoghierNabawiyah
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Souad NasrCast
Ahmad BedirAntar
Ibrahim Abdulraziqthe narrator
Nahed SamirUm AhmedExplore the crew
- Director
- Salah Abu Seif
- Producer
- Salah Abu Seif
- Writer
- Ismail Waly Eldeen
- Writer
- Mohsen Zayed
- Writer
- Salah Abu Seif
- Director of Photography
- Abdel Moneim Bahnassy