Two businessmen, one secretary, zero chill — Egyptian cinema's most chaotic love triangle.
Two partners in a contracting company. The first wants to take revenge on a competitor, and does not feel the love that the office secretary has for him, at the same time that his partner loves her and asks for her hand, but the engagement is broken off, and the first is accused of killing a contractor from a competing company in a plot by his competitor, so he is sent to prison, so he decides to escape to take revenge on the killer.
Acting
Farid Shawqy's smoldering intensity as Fattouh.
Direction
Zulfiqar's tight pacing for a 109-minute epic.
Costume
1960s Cairo office chic and prison garb contrast.
Director
Mahmoud Zulfiqar
Farid Shawqy
Fattouh
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Nahed
Mahmoud El Meligy
Al-Issawi
Emad Hamdy
Raafat
Samiha Ayoub
Tahiya
Salah Nazmi
Ezzat Abdel Samie
Shafiq Nour ElDein
Zaki Effendi
Khayria Ahmed
Thana - Secretary
Said Khalil
Haroun - Al-Isawi's secretary
Mohsen Hassanein
Youssef Obaid
Mohamed Reda
Mabrouk - contractor
Mohamed Abaza
Prison warden
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1960 Egyptian melodrama reflects post-revolution Cairo's tension between traditional values and modern business ambition.
The title 'Giant' ironically refers to the contracting company's name, not any character's stature — a metaphor for corporate ego crushing human connection.
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