The Malatily Bathhouse

(1973)

★ 5.5 IMDb · 11 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1973

Runtime: 106 мин

Country: Egypt

Director: Salah Abu Seif

Cast: شمس البارودي, Yousuf Shaaban, Mohamed El Arabi, Nemat Mokhtar, Fayez Halawa, Naima ElSoghier, عبد الغني النجدي, Souad Nasr, أحمد بدير, Ibrahim Abdulraziq

Plot

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.