Feature film — 1973
The Malatily Bathhouse (1973)
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.
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Director: Salah Abu Seif
On screen
Cast & crew
Shams El-Barudy
Naima
Yousuf Shaaban
Raouf the painter
Muhammad al-Arabi
Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Nemat Mokhtar
Fayez Halawa
Naima ElSoghier
Nabawiyah
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Souad Nasr
Ahmad Bedir
Antar
Ibrahim Abdulraziq
the narrator
Said Khalil
Nahed Samir
Um Ahmed
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