Gold smuggling, parking lot schemes, and revenge—Egyptian 80s crime doesn't mess around.
Batta works with her stepfather, Qorani, the parking attendant. They meet the businessman, Masood and she discovers that he works with his wife in smuggling gold. Her fiancé Ismail reports him to the police but he gets released for lack of evidence and Masood decides to make him pay.
Acting
Hussein Fahmy's slimy businessman energy is deliciously hateable.
Production
Cairo street-level authenticity no studio backlot could fake.
Director
Saad Arafa
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released six years before the 1990s Islamist violence escalated, this captures Mubarak-era Cairo's economic desperation and casual corruption that fueled later unrest.
Director Saad Arafa was prolific in commercial Egyptian cinema but rarely screened internationally; this was one of Poussi's last major roles before she largely retired from acting.
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