The man who fought the port bosses and won your heart.
Hamouda is a porter at the port who tries to establish a union for the port workers. As those who exploit the workers oppose him, they frame him for a crime and send him to jail. When he is released, he finds his fiancée Nousa waiting for him.
Acting
Shawqy's wounded dignity—charisma you can't fake.
Direction
Mostafa shoots the docks like they're alive and watching.
Director
Niazi Mostafa
Farid Shawqy
Hamouda Abdel-Al - حمودة عبدالعال
Mahmoud El Meligy
Khalil Ibrahim Ali - خليل ابراهيم على
Soheir El Morshedy
Noosa - نوسة
Nemat Mokhtar
Aziza Muhammad Abu Wardeh - عزيزة محمد أبو ورده
Hassan Hamed
Jaafar Hussein Abu Al-Saud - جعفر حسين أبوالسعود
Ahmed Abaza
Abbas Abu Douma - المعلم عباس أبو دومة
Mohsen Hassanein
Shanakel Muhammad Zeinhom - شناكل محمد زينهم
Ibrahim Qadry
Solomon - سليمان - شيال
Mohamed Ahmed Almasry
رزق - الصياد
Mohamed Shawqi
زينهم محمد زينهم
Samiha Mohamed
بدر - والدة نوسة
Hussein ElSherbiny
وكيل النيابة
Emad El-Den Adib
الطفل صنعو رزق
Abdel Moneim Saudi
القاضي
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made during Nasser's Arab Socialist era, this was state-approved revolutionary cinema—with just enough romance to keep censors happy and audiences invested.
Farid Shawqy was Egypt's everyman superstar; he played so many working-class heroes that dockers reportedly greeted him as 'brother' in real ports.
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