The Bathhouse of Malatily

The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973)

Hammam Al Malatily

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 1973-07-02
  • User Rating: 5.7/10 from 9 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 46min
  • Language: العربية
  • Production Country: Egypt
  • Director: Salah Abu Seif
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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.

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  • Shams El-Barudy

    as Naima

  • Yousuf Shaaban

    as Raouf the painter

  • Mohamed El Arabi

    as Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam

  • Nemat Mokhtar

    as

  • Fayez Halawa

    as

  • Naima ElSoghier

    as Nabawiyah

  • Abdel Ghani El Nagdi

    as

  • Souad Nasr

    as

  • Ahmad Bedir

    as Antar

  • Ibrahim Abdulraziq

    as the narrator

  • Said Khalil

    as

  • Nahed Samir

    as Um Ahmed

  • Ibrahim Qadry

    as Hassanein

  • Galeela Mahmoud

    as

  • Ali Mostafa

    as
Directing Salah Abu Seif Director
Directing Abdel Fattah Madbouly Co-Director
Writing Mohsen Zayed Writer
Production Salah Abu Seif Producer
Writing Ismail Waly Eldeen Writer
Camera Abdel Moneim Bahnassy Director of Photography
Sound Gamal Salama Music
Directing Mohamed Salah Abu Saif Co-Director
Writing Salah Abu Seif Writer

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