Three soldiers, one plane, zero idea what's waiting below — 1950s Egyptian cinema goes to war.
Farghali, Awad, and Ahmed are three soldiers who meet for the first time after a successful operation against the Zionist forces during the 1948 war. Orders are issued to paratroopers to land in land seized by the Zionists, and in the plane we learn that every pilot has a story.
Production
Rare Egyptian studio attempt at airborne war spectacle.
Acting
Shoukry Sarhan's magnetic screen presence anchors the ensemble.
Director
Niazi Mostafa
Ahmed Ramzy
Ahmed Nasrallah - أحمد نصرالله
Amaal Farid
Samira - سميرة - المضيفة
Abdelsalam Al-Nabulsi
Antar Heshmat - عنتر حشمت
Shoukry Sarhan
Farghaly - فرغلي
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Awad Abdel Maqsoud - عواد عبدالمقصود
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim
Mukhtar Hassanein - مختار حسنين
Adly Kasseb
The Sergeant Abdel-Barr - الشاويش عبدالبر
Salwa Mahmoud
Firdous Zayed - فردوس زايد
Sanaa Gamil
Head Nurse - رئيسة الممرضات
Mohamed Reda
Mayor - العمدة
Monera Sonbul
Nadia - الممرضة نادية
Said Abou Bakr
Marconi - ماركوني
Abdel Hameed Badawy
Sheikh Zayed - الشخ زايد
Kamel Anwar
Al-Ajouri - العجوري
Hassan Hamed
Zionist soldier - جندي صهيوني
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the Suez Crisis, this film served as both morale booster and political statement — Niazi Mostafa was essentially making government-sanctioned war propaganda while actual war raged.
Ahmed Ramzy became Egypt's biggest heartthrob after this; his pilot character's romantic subplot was reportedly added in reshoots when producers realized his star power.
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