The Bathhouse of Malatily

    The Bathhouse of Malatily
    1973

    Synopsis

    The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. 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.

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    Cast

    • Shams El-BarudyNaima
    • Yousuf ShaabanRaouf the painter
    • Mohamed El ArabiAhmed Taher Abdel Salam
    • Nemat Mokhtar
    • Fayez Halawa
    • Naima ElSoghierNabawiyah
    • Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
    • Souad Nasr
    • Ahmad BedirAntar
    • Ibrahim Abdulraziqthe narrator

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