Actress Sanaa Kamel is found murdered on her bed, and an investigation starts, taking into account everyone of the guests she hosted at her apartment the night she was killed: her jealous fiancé, a school instructor, a corrupt market manager, one of Sanaa's friends who works as a contractor, and a stud who was Sanaa's secret lover. As the investigation progresses, all the conclusions about the characters are always under question.
Acting
Sohier Ramzy's final, ferocious performance.
Direction
Marzouk's surgical dismantling of respectability.
Costume
1970s Cairo glamour that screams secrets.
Director
Saeed Marzouk
Sohier Ramzy
الممثلة سناء كامل
Hussein Fahmy
أحمد صابر
Salah Zulfikar
حافظ - مدير الشركة الوطنية لمواد البناء
Zubaida Tharwat
منى
Omar Al-Hariri
المحقق حسين صديق
Adel Adham
ممدوح فريد - العشيق
Emad Hamdy
أليف البحراوي - الناظر
Tawfiq Al-Deqen
فهمي القليوبي - مدير الجمعية
Samir Sabri
سمير صبري
Kamal Al-Shenawy
مسؤول كبير بالدولة
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim
عبدالمنعم إبراهيم
Yousuf Shaaban
الطبيب تحسين
Abdel Warith Assir
نجيب
Waheid Seif
سامي الجعر
Saeed Abdel Ghani
كمال - مساعد المحقق
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Sadat's Open Door policy, this film scandalized Egypt by depicting upper-class moral decay while the censors were theoretically relaxing. Audiences read it as documentary.
Marzouk borrowed heavily from Italian giallo structure but replaced stylized violence with social critique — the real horror is who gets away with what in a patriarchal police state.
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