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
Yousuf Shaaban
as Raouf the painter
Nemat Mokhtar
Naima ElSoghier
as Nabawiyah
Ibrahim Abdulraziq
as the narrator
Said Khalil
Ibrahim Qadry
as Hassanein
Souad Nasr
Fayez Halawa
Ahmad Bedir
as Antar
Galeela Mahmoud
Ali Mostafa
Mohamed El Arabi
as Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Nahed Samir
as Um Ahmed
Shams El-Barudy
as Naima
