She asked for help. He buried his brother. The twist? She planned it all.
Afaf turns to Yahya's house and asks him to save her from a criminal gang chasing her. The gang breaks into the house, and when Yahya resists, they kill his little brother. Yahya discovers that Afaf planned this to facilitate the gang's mission.
Acting
Nahla Salama's two-faced performance — angelic then ice-cold.
Direction
El-Sabawy traps you in that claustrophobic house siege.
Director
Ahmed El-Sabawy
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Ramez Galal — future prank-show king — plays the doomed little brother in one of his earliest roles.
This rode the wave of 'adghal' (vulgar/realistic) Egyptian cinema in the late 90s, rejecting glossy studio melodrama for street-level grit.
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