Two country bumpkins walk into Cairo and accidentally start a gang war. Chaos ensues.
Shandawili and Ashmawy arrive from their hometown to Cairo to look for Abdel-Al, who's supposed to buy a modern farming machine. They both fall prey to Abu Hatab's gang. Feryal admires Shandawili, and decides to repent. Shandawili informs the police about Abu Hatab and his gang with the help of Feryal.
Acting
Younes Shalaby's rubber-faced physical comedy is peak 80s Egyptian cinema
Production
Gritty authentic Cairo locations vs polished studio sets
Writing
Sharp dialect comedy between rural and urban Arabic
Director
Ahmed Tharwat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures peak 1980s Egyptian comedy when rural-urban migration stories dominated box offices, reflecting real economic pressures on farmers.
Director Ahmed Tharwat specialized in exactly this formula—naive provincials navigating Cairo's criminal underbelly with their dignity somehow intact.
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