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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.
Keywords
romance
gay theme
Casts

Shams El-Barudy
Naima

Yousuf Shaaban
Raouf the painter

Mohamed El 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

Ibrahim Qadry
Hassanein

Galeela Mahmoud

Ali Mostafa
Crews

Salah Abu Seif
Director
Abdel Fattah Madbouly
Co-Director

Mohamed Salah Abu Saif
Co-Director

Gamal Salama
Music

Salah Abu Seif
Writer

Salah Abu Seif
Producer

Ismail Waly Eldeen
Writer

Mohsen Zayed
Writer
Abdel Moneim Bahnassy
Director of Photography
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