The Malatily Bathhouse (1973)
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.
Director: Salah Abu Seif
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Shams El-Barudy as Naima |
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Yousuf Shaaban as Raouf the painter |
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Mohamed El Arabi as Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam |
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Nemat Mokhtar as |
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Fayez Halawa as |
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Naima ElSoghier as Nabawiyah |
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Abdel Ghani El Nagdi as |
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Souad Nasr as |
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Ahmad Bedir as Antar |
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Ibrahim Abdulraziq as the narrator |
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Said Khalil as |
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Nahed Samir as Um Ahmed |
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Ibrahim Qadry as Hassanein |
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Galeela Mahmoud as |
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Ali Mostafa as |
| Directing | Salah Abu Seif | Director |
| Directing | Abdel Fattah Madbouly | Co-Director |
| Directing | Mohamed Salah Abu Saif | Co-Director |
| Sound | Gamal Salama | Music |
| Writing | Salah Abu Seif | Writer |
| Production | Salah Abu Seif | Producer |
| Writing | Ismail Waly Eldeen | Writer |
| Writing | Mohsen Zayed | Writer |
| Camera | Abdel Moneim Bahnassy | Director of Photography |
