Cop takes down a gang. They take down his daughter. Egyptian revenge cinema hits different.
A successful police officer chases a gang, succeeds in his mission and is able to catch its members. The gang takes revenge on him by making his beautiful young daughter addicted to drugs. Her fiancé and her family try to find out the reason for the change in the daughter's behavior and try to save her from the abyss she has fallen into.
Acting
Mahmoud El Gendy crushes the shattered father role.
Direction
Nasser Hussien's Cairo feels claustrophobic and inevitable.
Director
Nasser Hussien
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1990s Egyptian cinema obsessed with drug panic; this film weaponizes that fear against the law itself.
The revenge structure inverts typical police procedurals—the cop's success IS the trigger for catastrophe.
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