The Malatily Bathhouse

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.

• Salah Abu SeifDirector
• Salah Abu SeifWriter
• Ismail Waly EldeenWriter
• Mohsen ZayedWriter

• Shams El-BarudyNaima
• Yousuf ShaabanRaouf the painter
• Mohamed El ArabiAhmed Taher Abdel Salam
• Nemat MokhtarCast
• Fayez HalawaCast
• Naima ElSoghierNabawiyah
• Abdel Ghani El NagdiCast
• Souad NasrCast
• Ahmad BedirAntar
• Ibrahim Abdulraziqthe narrator
• Said KhalilCast
• Nahed SamirUm Ahmed