Mom's new man? Time to sleep with a prostitute. Classic 70s Egyptian melodrama logic.
A handsome young man called Nader lives a wealthy life with his widowed mother Nazik. When his father's friend Saleh takes over the management of their company, Nader finds out that his mother is in a relationship with Saleh, which drives him into the arms of the prostitute Mimi to take revenge.
Acting
Shadia's Mimi radiates tragic warmth against all the male hysteria.
Direction
Fahmy frames Cairo's elite spaces like suffocating prisons.
Director
Ashraf Fahmy
Shadia
Monira / Mimi منيرة (ميمي)
Hussein Fahmy
Nader نادر
Mahmoud Moursy
Saleh صالح
Adel Adham
Housam حسام
Laila Fawzy
Nazik نازك
Madiha Kamel
Suzie سوزي
Ali Al Sharif
المأذون عبدالصمد
Mahmoud Rashad
نامق بيه
Kawthar Shafik
Abdel Azim Kamel
Samiha Mohamed
Mohamed Refaat
Mohamed Abu Hashish
Motawie Eweiss
Saleh al-Eskandarani
علي - فرّاش الشركة
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during Sadat's Open Door policy, the film anxiously interrogates new money and loosening social mores while punishing female sexuality.
Shadia—Egypt's legendary singer-actress—took this role at career twilight, subverting her pure screen image. Hussein Fahmy was at peak pretty-boy toxicity.
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