Film

The Malatily Bathhouse 1973

106 min TMDB 5.5 Drama

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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Cast

  • Shams El-Barudy as Naima
  • Yousuf Shaaban as Raouf the painter
  • Muhammad al-Arabi as Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
  • Nemat Mokhtar
  • Fayez Halawa
  • Naima ElSoghier as Nabawiyah

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