One face, two brothers, zero chill — Egyptian cinema's wildest identity swap.
Two brothers, the first is a swindler who asks his brother, who looks like him, to replace him in his business after he is chased by his opponents, the two brothers, one of them is an evil man working in diamond smuggling, while the second is a respectable human being despite his extreme poverty, the evil brother succeeds in entering his brother to the mental hospital, but he decides to get him out of it in order to deceive some gangsters
Acting
Farid Shawqy's dual performance — smarm vs. soul
Direction
Niazi Mostafa balancing farce and genuine class critique
Production
Cairo's 1960s underworld in gorgeous monochrome
Director
Niazi Mostafa
Farid Shawqy
Yousry / Abbas
Aida Hilal
Laila, Yousri’s wife
Nagwa Fouad
Sonia - the honorable dancer
Stephan Rosti
Monsieur Jacques
Mahmoud El Meligy
Sharaf - leader of a diamond smuggling gang
Hassan Fayek
Si Muhammad
Fouad Shafiq
Abu Laila
Abdel Ghani Qamar
Shafiq Effendi - Director of Yousry Office
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
The janitor
Omar Afifi
art critic
Said Khalil
Sayed - The undercover officer within the gang
Mary Bay Bay
تفيدة شيكا بيكا - زوجة سى محمد
Abdel Moneim Ismail
القهوجى
Hassan Atla
صول القسم
Ezz ElDein Islam
مدير مستشفى المجانين
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film captures 1960s Cairo's fascination with European noir aesthetics while critiquing the wealth gap Nasser-era audiences knew intimately.
Farid Shawqy reportedly insisted on doing both brothers' scenes back-to-back without a stand-in, exhausting himself into genuine delirium that director Mostafa kept in the final cut.
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