A nobody becomes everybody's nightmare — and his only way out is catching the real monster.
Zaki is a poor person who works as a public transport agent.His family treats him with contempt. He tries to evacuate his apartment by force. When a serial killer strikes, the victims descriptions as applying to Zaki, who is arrested by the police. Despite proving his innocence, people escape from him and treat him with fear for believing that he is the beast. Zaki tries to reach the beast to solve his problems.
Acting
Nour El-Sherif's desperate, dignity-stripped performance carries every frame.
Writing
The Kafkaesque premise where poverty itself becomes criminal evidence.
Director
Ahmed El-Sabawy
Nour El-Sherif
زكي محمد الطيب
Gamal Ismail
عم سيد
Sohier Ramzy
علية
Khalil Morsi
الوحش
Ahmed Halawa
عبده سواق الاتوبيس
Othman Abdel Monem
Hagag Abdel Azim
القهوجى المتحرش
Naeem Essa
صاحب المصبغة المتحرش
Othman Mohamed Ali
شيخ المسجد
Emad Moharam
شطا - صاحب البيت
Mohamad Nagy
أبو شنب - العجلاتى
Attia Eweiss
مدير الأمن
Muhammad Mandour
مقدم الشرطة
Hussein El Sherif
رائد الشرطة
Sayed Mustafa
نقيب الشرطة
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Nour El-Sherif was Egypt's biggest star, yet chose this grim role during his commercial peak — a rarity in 90s Arab cinema where stars avoided unlikable poverty portraits.
Director Ahmed El-Sabawy uses public spaces — buses, crowded streets — as traps where anonymity becomes accusation, reflecting Egypt's surveillance-heavy 90s.
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