A middle-aged man's heart gets hijacked by greed dressed in silk — classic Egyptian melodrama with teeth.
(Zaki), single in his fifties, was known among people as an example of magnanimity and chivalry, but the seductress Mona was able to conquer his heart, seeking to marry him greed for his money and to achieve for herself all the luxury and influence she could, and after marriage she tries to distance him from his chosen friends and take control On him, and events follow.
Acting
Adel Adham's wounded dignity — the man practically invented tragicomic masculinity.
Costume
Mona's wardrobe screams 'gold-digger ascending' in every scene.
Director
Ahmed El-Sabawy
Adel Adham
Zaki Riyad Al-Isnawi
Salah El-Saadany
Hassan
Sawsan Badr
Bataa
Raghda
Mona
Hussein ElSherbiny
Zeinhom
Abdel Salam Mohamed
Hajj Khalifa
Ahmed Khamis
Hasnin
Abdel Ghani Naser
prison warden
Shaaban Hussein
Fahmy
Ahmed Abu Abiya
Gomaa, The Jeweler
Hamdy El Wazeer
Ramzy
Adel Borham
Nader
Hosny Abdul Jalil
one of the prisoners
Rashwan Mustafa
Assistant Minister of Interior
Abdel Moneim ElNemr
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Giant arrived during Egypt's 1980s 'vulgar cinema' wave — populist melodramas that critics sneered at but audiences devoured.
Adel Adham specialized in these fallen patriarch roles — his entire career was built on making middle-class male fragility weirdly compelling.
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