The Bathhouse of Malatily

• 5.7 Drama
• 1973-07-02
• 106 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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 () Souad Nasr () Ahmad Bedir (Antar) Ibrahim Abdulraziq (the narrator)

Director:

Salah Abu Seif

Writer:

Ismail Waly Eldeen Mohsen Zayed Salah Abu Seif