A regular guy wants an apartment and gets the mob instead. Peak 80s Egyptian chaos.
Hassan Shawish simple hope to find an apartment and marry his fiancée, which competes to win her cousin is well. In his work, he has to sneak into a drug gang and his life changes afterwards.
Acting
Younes Shalaby's everyman panic is genuinely iconic Egyptian comedy.
Direction
Ismail Hassan keeps the farce breathless without losing emotional stakes.
Director
Ismail Hassan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'apartment crisis' was a genuine 1980s Cairo epidemic; this comedy hit different when audiences were literally living it.
Younes Shalaby improvised most of his panicked rambling scenes, driving the script supervisor to actual tears.
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