A belly dancer marries the wrong man, then watches him steal her stage—literally.
When Shaikhon marries Dalal, a belly dancer, they are blessed with two kids. Shaikhon steals Dalal's money to buy the club where she works. Dalal gets back at him and reports him to the police who have him imprisoned. When he comes out of prison full of vengeance, his past ghosts still haunt him.
Acting
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz's simmering, wounded masculinity.
Direction
El-Tayeb frames the club like a trap closing slowly.
Director
Atef El-Tayeb
Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
Sheikhoun - Suleiman Al-Minyawi
Nabila Obeid
Dalal
Sherif Mounir
Wanees
Ahmad Bedir
Khalil
Magdy Wahba
Colonel Ahmed Ghanem
Ragaa Hussein
Enaam
Ahmed Salama
Zuhair
Samia Samy
Nahed Roshdy
Soha
Hassan Al Deeb
Mohamed Mostafa
Sami
Nadia Ezzat
Samiha
Mohamad Nagy
Saeed Al-Batsh
Hafez Amin
Abd Rabbuh Al-Issawi
Qassem El Daly
Realtor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1980s Egyptian cinema often used belly dancers as symbols of modernity's moral corruption.
Nabila Obeid was Egypt's biggest star then; casting her as trapped dancer was deliberate subversion.
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