He hated all women until she changed everything. Then she changed again. Revenge is served Egyptian-style.
(Hassan) is a young man who suffers from a psychological complex due to betrayal that he has lived with since his childhood, so he does not like women, but a beautiful girl can make him fall in love with her, and he sees life as rosy through her, and after several months the wife changes, and the husband becomes suspicious, and discovers that his wife is cheating on him, his feeling of depression increases and he decides to take revenge on her.
Acting
Farid Shawqy's intense paranoid breakdowns
Direction
Sayed Tantawi's shadowy Cairo streets
Production
Authentic 1968 Egyptian studio aesthetic
Director
Sayed Tantawi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This emerged during Egyptian cinema's 'new realism' movement, using thriller tropes to examine masculine insecurity in a changing society.
Farid Shawqy was Egypt's biggest star but took a pay cut to fund this darker role; the film was banned in several conservative provinces for its 'immoral' depiction of marital suspicion.
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