Abbas, a resident of Cairo, is appointed by the government to hold the office of supervisor in a post office in a small village in Upper Egypt.
Acting
Shoukry Sarhan's simmering frustration as fish-out-of-water Abbas.
Cinematography
Stark black-and-white frames that make poverty look gorgeous.
Director
Hussein Kamal
Shoukry Sarhan
Abbas
Zizi Mostafa
Gamila
Salah Mansour
Gamilas father
Soheir El Morshedy
Naasa
Hassan Mostafa
Semeda
Seif Abdelrahman
khalil
Abdel Ghani Qamar
Abul samee wahdan
Nahed Samir
halema
Moshira Ismail
Soher
Ehsan Sherif
Om Ahmed
Ahmed ElGezeiry
hosney
Aawatif Tikla
mariam
Ali Roushdy
moawad
Eskandar Mansy
aziz
Helmy Hilaly
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 1960s Egyptian cinema, when Cairo's film industry was the Hollywood of the Arab world.
The post office as microcosm mirrors Egypt's struggle with modernization—progress arrives, but traditions devour it.
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