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The Bathhouse of Malatily
1973, Jul 02
1h 46m
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, Salah Abu Seif, Ismail Waly Eldeen
Shams El-Barudy
Naima
Ahmad Bedir
Antar
Yousuf Shaaban
Raouf the painter
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Nahed Samir
Um Ahmed
Nemat Mokhtar
Mohamed El Arabi
Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Ibrahim Qadry
Hassanein
Naima ElSoghier
Nabawiyah
Ibrahim Abdulraziq
the narrator
Said Khalil
Souad Nasr
Fayez Halawa
Galeela Mahmoud
Ali Mostafa
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