Country boy meets city girl, boss wants her too — classic Cairo chaos ensues.
A group of people who come from the countryside to the capital in search of a source of livelihood, including (Shbara), who works as a car caller, gets to know (Inshirah), and they fall in love. (Shbara)’s boss wants (Inshirah) for himself, so he plots to keep him away from her. At the same time (Ainu) deceives the boss's daughter, robs her of her honor, and refuses to marry her, and the conflict continues.
Acting
Tahiya Cariocca brings legendary presence to every scene she's in.
Production
Authentic 1970s Cairo locations capture a vanished cityscape.
Director
Khalil Shawky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film captures Egypt's rural-to-urban migration wave of the 1960s-70s, a massive social transformation rarely depicted with this much soap opera flair.
Khalil Shawky directed this during his commercial peak before largely abandoning cinema for television—making this a time capsule of his big-screen ambitions.
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