A night of drinking, a dead girlfriend, and a friend who remembers nothing. Egyptian noir at its most claustrophobic.
Aziz goes to visit his friend Sherif while the latter's girlfriend, Salwa is in the house. As the two friends get drunk, Sherif passes out, only to wake up to the cops who arrest him for killing Salwa.
Acting
Hussein Fahmy's unraveling is genuinely uncomfortable to watch.
Direction
Arafa traps you in rooms that feel increasingly hostile.
Director
Saad Arafa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
A rare 80s Egyptian film that ditched musical numbers entirely for pure procedural tension—a commercial gamble that basically disappeared it from circulation for decades.
Yousra was reportedly furious her role was so small; she dies in the first fifteen minutes and dominates the rest only in flashback and implication.
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