The Bathhouse of Malatily
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.
Cast
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
