A drug kingpin's marriage deal goes sideways when love refuses to be transactional. Cairo noir hits different.
Al-Hanash wants to marry the daughter of Jaber, his assistant in drug trafficking, in exchange for covering up Jabir's killing of Abu Hadid. But Amina refuses this marriage, and she is in a relationship with Hassan Ibn Abu Hadid.
Acting
Mahmoud El Meligy's menacing charm as Attiya Al-Hanash.
Direction
Niazi Mostafa's shadow-drenched Cairo underworld.
Writing
Moral complexity where everyone's hands get dirty.
Director
Niazi Mostafa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of 1950s Egyptian 'realist cinema' wave that smuggled social critique past censors through crime narratives.
Farid Shawqy and Mahmoud El Meligy were frequent rivals onscreen; their genuine tension made every scene electric.
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