A loyal worker's home life implodes spectacularly — Arab soap opera meets dark social satire.
A Kuwaiti comedy play that revolves around Saif, a loyal and diligent worker whom experiences difficulties at home which lead to disastrous results.
Acting
AbdulHusain AbdulRedha's Saif — exhaustion you can feel through the screen.
Writing
Dialogue that stings with workplace hierarchy and homefront warfare.
Director
Farouk Al-Qaisi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1976 play captures Kuwait's oil-boom class tensions, where migrant and working-class loyalty was demanded but rarely rewarded. The 'house of pride' refers to both literal domestic space and the fragile social status families fought to maintain.
Farouk Al-Qaisi's direction influenced Gulf television drama for decades; this theatrical film preserved a stage tradition where comedy and tragedy collapse into each other in real time.
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