A good man who loves his family and devotes himself to taking care of them. A woman intercepts him and takes him into her love. This changes his circumstances and he is distracted by her from his family. He neglects his work and his life is upended. He ends up killing this woman who killed him and betrayed him. Then he immigrates to Sinai, where he lives for a few years. When He returns to his family and finds that the children have grown up and married.
Cinematography
Expressionist shadows predicting film noir years early.
Acting
Youssef Wahby's descent from dignity to ruin.
Director
Togo Mizrahi
Youssef Wahby
يوسف
Fatma Roshdy
ثريّا
Amina Rizk
أمينة زوجة يوسف
Bishara Wakim
Mohamed El Deeb
Ferdoos Mohamed
أم عبدُه
Stephan Rosti
إبراهيم
Mansi Fahmy
Ismail Yasseen
الرجل السكران ، دور قصير بأول الفيلم
Abdel Meguid Shukry
Mohamed Shawqi
أحمد - موظف
Zaki Ibrahim
المإمور
Mahmoud El Meligy
مختار بيه
Abdelalim Khattab
فهمى افندى
Lotfi El Hakim
موظف بمسرح بيروت
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Togo Mizrahi, an Italian Jew in Egypt, directed this during WWII occupation—exile themes hit differently.
Sinai as liminal space mirrors Egypt's own colonial limbo; the 'straight road' is anything but.
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