A broke translator, a pharaonic queen, and the worst real estate deal in Egyptian history.
The translator loves his cousin, but her father insists that the translator pay the appropriate dowry. He finds nothing but the old house that he owns, and puts it up for sale, but the antiques dealer only offers a low price. At the same time, an antiquities thief gang is searching for the coffin of a pharaonic queen and discovers it in the translator's house.
Acting
Ismail Yasseen's physical comedy genius at peak form.
Production
Chaotic 1960s Cairo locations and makeshift tomb aesthetics.
Writing
Ridiculous coincidence plot that somehow holds together.
Director
Hasan El-Saifi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ismail Yasseen was Egypt's comedy king of the 1950s-60s, making over 150 films. This role typifies his 'desperate everyman' archetype.
Stephan Rosti, playing the Greek-Egyptian dealer, was actually born in Italy—part of a generation of Mediterranean actors who defined Egyptian cinema's cosmopolitan era.
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