The Malatily Bathhouse
5.5(11) 1973-07-02 106 minDrama
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.
DirectorSalah Abu Seif
WriterSalah Abu Seif
ProducerSalah Abu Seif
WriterIsmail Waly Eldeen
WriterMohsen Zayed
Cast & characters
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 —
