The Malatily Bathhouse (1973)
Drama
Overview
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.
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
- Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
- Souad Nasr
- Ahmad Bedir as Antar
- Ibrahim Abdulraziq as the narrator