Watch Out for Zuzu

A girl leaves behind her past life as a dancer working in Mohammed Ali Street and enters college. Her ambition is to acquire knowledge and to leave behind her former life. She finds herself in a relationship with a young man from an affluent background and thus becomes conflicted between her two lives.

Cast

Soad Hosny

as Zuzu/Zeinab

Hussein Fahmy

as Saeed Kamel

Tahiya Cariocca

as Naema Almaza

Samir Ghanem

as Suleiman Al-Ankash

Nabila El Sayed

as Bissa

Mohey Ismail

as Omran

Shafiq Galal

as Shalaby

Waheid Seif

as Sharaby

Shahinaz Taha

as Nazek

Abbas Fares

as Kamel Al-Shanwani

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