Your ex dies in your living room. Your wife hates you. Cairo, 1973. Good luck, buddy.
Adel lives happily with his wife until he meets his ex-girlfriend, who works as a dancer. During her visit to his home, she faints and then he discovers that she has died. Adel is arrested and his wife is shocked, while his friend the police officer tries to find out the real killer.
Acting
Salah Zulfikar's perfect panic energy
Production
1970s Cairo apartments as character
Writing
Tight whodunit structure, melodrama dialed to 11
Director
Seif El Din Shawkat
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1970s Egyptian cinema was obsessed with the 'respectable man undone by temptation' narrative—reflecting social anxiety about modernization.
Director Seif El Din Shawkat was also a prolific cinematographer; this explains the claustrophobic framing of Adel's apartment.
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