The Bathhouse of Malatily
Hammam Al Malatily
1973-07-02 | 106 minutes
Plot Summary
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.
Cast
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Shams El-BarudyNaima
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Yousuf ShaabanRaouf the painter
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Mohamed El ArabiAhmed Taher Abdel Salam
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Nemat Mokhtar
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Fayez Halawa
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Naima ElSoghierNabawiyah
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Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
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Souad Nasr
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Ahmad BedirAntar
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Ibrahim Abdulraziqthe narrator
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Said Khalil
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Nahed SamirUm Ahmed
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Ibrahim QadryHassanein
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Galeela Mahmoud
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Ali Mostafa
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