An aging man's intention to publish his biography has a lot of rich and powerful people worried what he might reveal.
Acting
Sharif's weathered gravitas — every silence weighs a ton.
Writing
Biography as weapon; words more dangerous than bullets.
Direction
Lasheen's paranoid framing — walls seem to listen.
Director
Hany Lasheen
Omar Sharif
Ayoub/Abdul Hamid Al-Sukkari
Mahmoud El Meligy
Fadel
Fouad Al-Mohandes
Jalal Abu Al-Saud
Madiha Yousri
Afkar
Mostafa Fahmy
Wafiq
Athar ElHakim
Nabila
Samia Samy
Sameh El-Sereety
Hamed
Osama Abbas
Abdul Radi
Ibrahim ElShamy
Hajj Mahmoud
Laila Fahmy
Azhar
Hafez Amin
Saleh
Mohamed Abu Dawood
Engineer Raouf
Suhair Sabri
Rashwan Mustafa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on the real Al-Sukkari affair, a journalist whose corruption exposés shook Sadat's Egypt before his suspicious 1981 death.
Sharif spent 12 years in European exile; this was his deliberate return to Egyptian cinema, choosing political courage over commercial safety.
EG
