A 1941 Egyptian fever dream where a genie spills ALL the tea on your adopted son's secret royal past.
Othman, a fisherman, finds a baby inside a floating basket while fishing, so he takes him, raises him and teaches him fishing. Othman gets arrested for fishing in a protected area, but the prince's daughter intervenes to exempt him. A genie than appears to Othman and tells him the story of his adopted son Morgan.
Acting
Ali AlKassar's Othman: pure working-class chaos energy.
Production
Togo Mizrahi built Egyptian studio fantasy from scratch.
Costume
Princess drip that says 'I own you' without speaking.
Director
Togo Mizrahi
Ali AlKassar
عثمان عبدالباسط
Aqeila Rateb
الأميرة مديحة أنس الملوك
Reyaad ElQasabgy
المستشار الأول
Hamed Morsi
الأمير بهاء الدين حلم الملوك / مرجان
Ali Abdel Aal
صبى عثمان عبدالباسط
Zakeya Ebrahim
زليخة
Zouzou Nabil
شهرزاد
Abdel Aziz El Gahely
الامير
Souad Ahmed
أم بهاء الدين
Zaki Ibrahim
حلم الملوك
Lotfi El Hakim
أنس الملوك
Ali Kamel
الخطيب
Tawfik Sadek
لادن بن طنجر المزيف
Abbas El Daly
الحاجب
Aziza Mohamed
رئيسة حريم السلطان
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Togo Mizrahi, an Italian Jew in Egypt, directed 40+ films blending Hollywood conventions with Egyptian folklore—this is peak colonial-era cosmopolitan cinema.
The 'floating baby' trope here mirrors Moses but subverts it: Morgan's elevation feels like Mizrahi's own fantasy of Egyptian belonging, made more poignant knowing his 1946 exile.
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