Drama
The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. 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.
Directed by
Salah Abu Seif
Written by
Mohsen Zayed, Ismail Waly Eldeen, Salah Abu Seif
Shams El-Barudy
Naima
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Nahed Samir
Um Ahmed
Ibrahim Qadry
Hassanein
Naima ElSoghier
Nabawiyah
Yousuf Shaaban
Raouf the painter
Ahmad Bedir
Antar
Souad Nasr
Said Khalil
Ibrahim Abdulraziq
the narrator
Nemat Mokhtar
Galeela Mahmoud
Mohamed El Arabi
Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Fayez Halawa
Ali Mostafa

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