Fares who managed to build his fortune from scratch using illegal methods goes through a tough phase in his life as his investment companies go bankrupt and his marital life becomes a total mess, and he has to find a way to save both.
Acting
Mahmoud Hemida's slow-motion implosion as a man losing everything.
Direction
Mohamed Khan captures Cairo's greed-soaked 90s with documentary intimacy.
Writing
Every conversation doubles as a power play—brutal, elegant.
Director
Mohamed Khan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Khan made this during Egypt's economic liberalization, capturing the new 'businessman class' before films openly criticized them.
The bankruptcy subplot mirrors real 1989 scandals; Hemida studied actual fallen tycoons to build Fares's physicality—notice how his posture collapses scene by scene.
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