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
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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