The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973)

02/7/1973 ( EG ) Drama1h 46m

Hammam Al Malatily

Overview

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.

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The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973)

Overview

Actors

Shams El-Barudy

Yousuf Shaaban

Mohamed El Arabi

Nemat Mokhtar

Fayez Halawa

Naima ElSoghier

Abdel Ghani El Nagdi

Souad Nasr

Ahmad Bedir

Ibrahim Abdulraziq

Said Khalil

Nahed Samir

Ibrahim Qadry

Galeela Mahmoud

Ali Mostafa

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