When it gets dark each evening a virtuous young lady transforms into a notorious flirt but remembers none of it the next day. She is treated by a psychiatrist who tries his best to find the root of her problems and cure her once and for all
Acting
Soad Hosny owns two personas in one devastating turn
Cinematography
El Sheikh crafts nocturnal Cairo into psychological purgatory
Direction
Kamal El Sheikh merges Arab melodrama with European horror DNA
Director
Kamal El Sheikh
Soad Hosny
Nahed / Mervit ناهد / مرفت
Mahmoud El Meligy
Dr. Talaat الدكتور طلعت
Nour El-Sherif
Raouf Kamel رؤوف كامل
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Nahed's Mom والدة ناهد (مرفت)
Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra
Taha طه
Salah Nazmi
Mohammed Fakhreddine محمد فخر الدين
Mohey Ismail
الرسام
Thuraya Ezz ElDein
Zizi زيزي
Hamdy Youssef
دكتور فؤاد
Hamza Elsheimy
سليمان - السائق
Akeela Refaat
ناهد وهي طفلة
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
El Sheikh made this after studying Hitchcock, importing psychological horror to Egyptian cinema years before it was common.
Soad Hosny was Egypt's 'Cinderella' — casting her as a split personality was deliberate subversion of her pure image.
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