Sharif and Fikri are suffering from the constant preoccupation of their wives. Sharif's wife works as a model, and Fikri's wife is busy giving private lessons. They help their single friend Ahmed rent an apartment under the guise of an import-export company to meet the girls. One of the workers ordered that apartment, and events escalate.
Acting
Adel Emam and Saeed Saleh's comedic timing is electric.
Production
1976 Cairo locations capture a vanished urban middle-class world.
Director
Niazi Mostafa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures Egypt's 1970s infatuation with farce as social critique, when cinema mocked bourgeois marriage while reinforcing it.
Niazi Mostafa directed over 50 films; this was his late-career return to pure comedy after years of melodrama.
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