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