The Malatily Bathhouse

1h 46m

Drama

5.2

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

Naima

Yousuf Shaaban

Raouf the painter

Mohamed El Arabi

Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam

Nemat Mokhtar

Unknown

Fayez Halawa

Unknown

Naima ElSoghier

Nabawiyah

Abdel Ghani El Nagdi

Unknown

Souad Nasr

Unknown

Ahmad Bedir

Antar

Ibrahim Abdulraziq

the narrator

Said Khalil

Unknown

Nahed Samir

Um Ahmed

Ibrahim Qadry

Hassanein

Galeela Mahmoud

Unknown

Ali Mostafa

Unknown

Crew

Salah Abu Seif

Director, Writer, Producer

Abdel Fattah Madbouly

Co-Director

Mohamed Salah Abu Saif

Co-Director

Ismail Waly Eldeen

Writer

Mohsen Zayed

Writer

Abdel Moneim Bahnassy

Director of Photography

Gamal Salama

Music