A baker kneads dough while plotting murder — Egyptian cinema's most delicious revenge thriller.
When his mother requests that he avenges his father by claiming back his right from the tyrant thug Dagher, Awad embarks on a long journey that starts by him working undercover in his bakery, and falling in love with Tea'ma, the bakery's manager's daughter, who will be his only companion on his revenge trip.
Acting
Adel Adham's Dagher oozes menace through charm alone.
Direction
Afifi turns a bakery into a pressure cooker of dread.
Director
Ibrahim Afifi
Adel Adham
Dagher Al Shahawi
Younes Shalaby
Al Shahaat / Awad
Maaly Zayed
Teama
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim
Khalil el-Wazir/Saber Huzair
Nabil ElHegrassy
Abduh Katanilla
Sherifa Maher
Husniyyah
Nadia ElKeilany
Wedad
Abdel Salam Mohamed
Tantawy
Hassan Al Deeb
Safroot
Samia Amin
Fawziyyah
Qassem El Daly
Shawqi
Diaa ElMerghany
Saeed Hassan
Abdel Moneim Elmarsfy
Antar Taamiza
Wahid Hamdy
Sunbati
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Filmed during Egypt's 'Infitah' era, the film critiques nouveau riche thuggery masquerading as legitimate business — Dagher's type was uncomfortably recognizable to 1984 audiences.
The flour-dusted handshake between Awad and Dagher — supposedly friendly, absolutely dripping with mutual recognition — became a staple of Egyptian acting classes for decades.
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