The Malatily Bathhouse
حمام الملاطيلي
Release: 1973-07-02
·Runtime: 106m
·★ 5.2
Drama
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.
Production Countries
Egypt
Cast
Nahed Samir
as Um Ahmed
Ali Mostafa
Shams El-Barudy
as Naima
Yousuf Shaaban
as Raouf the painter
Naima ElSoghier
as Nabawiyah
Souad Nasr
Said Khalil
Galeela Mahmoud
Nemat Mokhtar
Ahmad Bedir
as Antar
Ibrahim Abdulraziq
as the narrator
Ibrahim Qadry
as Hassanein
Mohamed El Arabi
as Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Fayez Halawa
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
