What if your grandpa got hot and stole your girl? Chaos.
When a doctor invents a formula that can restore youth, the 80-year-old Abbas takes the new formula and starts a new adventurous chapter as a young man. But reliving his youth comes at the expense of his family as he falls in love with his son's fiancée and decides to marry her.
Acting
Rushdy Abaza's transformation swagger
Production
1961 Cairo as retro-futuristic playground
Director
Abbas Kamel
Rushdy Abaza
المعلم عباس القزاز
Soad Hosny
سعاد خطيبة احمد
Nagwa Fouad
الراقصة
Tawfiq Al-Deqen
نبيل افندي المحتال
Khayria Ahmed
شغالة
Mimi Chakib
ام سعاد
Maher ElAttar
احمد بن عباس
Mohammed Jamal
محمود الصيدلي
Tarub
عزيزة بنت عباس
Nazim Sharawy
طبيب الشباب+عشماوي
Abdel Moneim Ismail
ممرض الحقن
Katkota
الراقصة
Hussain Ismael
الحاج حسين
Abdel Azim Kamel
الطبيب
Biligh Habashy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
H-3 represents rare Egyptian sci-fi from the Nasser era, blending Hollywood's 'fountain of youth' trope with local family-destroying melodrama.
Soad Hosny, Egypt's 'Cinderella,' was only 19 here—playing pawn between father and son while establishing her tragic-heroine screen persona.
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