A disco inferno leads to a dwarf revolution. 1980s Egypt was WILD.
Shehab the advertising director, makes a successful ad campaign for the opening of a disco, making many young people come to the disco, causing a huge fire. Shocked by the accident,he travels to Alexandria where he meets Chico the dwarf and helps him face a businessman who wants to take their land.
Acting
Yehia El Fakharany's guilt-ridden ad man transformation.
Direction
Sherif Arafa's whiplash genre shift: disco tragedy to underdog land battle.
Director
Sherif Arafa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sherif Arafa made this between commercial hits; it's his 'one for me' social issue film that baffled audiences expecting comedy.
1987 Egypt saw disco culture as Western corruption—Shehab's ad campaign causing disaster is basically moral panic made plot. The dwarf community storyline was reportedly added after real-life activist pressure.
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