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May 8, 2024, Posted in Uncategorized | No comments

The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973)

— 106 min - Drama, Social Conflict - 2 July 1973

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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...

April 30, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

Kit Kat (1991)

— 128 min - Comedy, Drama - 9 September 1991

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Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house. * The film is based on the novel (Malik Al-Hazin) by Ibrahim Aslan. * The movie "Kit Kat" won the Golden Award for Best Film at the Damascus International Film Festival in 1991...

March 6, 2023, Posted in Uncategorized

Kit Kat (1991)

— 128 min - Comedy, Drama - 9 September 1991

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Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.

Director:  Daoud Abdel Sayed

Writers:  Daoud Abdel Sayed

Stars:  Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Sherif Mounir, Aaidah Riyadh, Nagah...