Genres
The Bathhouse of Malatily (حمام الملاطيلي)
Hammam Al Malatily
Overview
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.
Key Crew
Director: Salah Abu Seif
Writer: Salah Abu Seif, Ismail Waly Eldeen, Mohsen Zayed
Producer: Salah Abu Seif
Director of Photography: Abdel Moneim Bahnassy
Top Cast
Shams El-Barudy
Naima
Yousuf Shaaban
Raouf the painter
Mohamed El Arabi
Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Nemat Mokhtar
Fayez Halawa
Naima ElSoghier
Nabawiyah
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
