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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
Ismail Waly Eldeen, Salah Abu Seif, Mohsen Zayed
Ahmad Bedir
Antar
Ibrahim Qadry
Hassanein
Nahed Samir
Um Ahmed
Souad Nasr
Naima ElSoghier
Nabawiyah
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Nemat Mokhtar
Shams El-Barudy
Naima
Galeela Mahmoud
Yousuf Shaaban
Raouf the painter
Said Khalil
Mohamed El Arabi
Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Ali Mostafa
Ibrahim Abdulraziq
the narrator
Fayez Halawa
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