The film's events revolve around the lawyer Mumtaz, who loves flirting with women, despite his marriage, and continues to cheat on his wife, until she decides to teach him a lesson in agreement with her friend, where she pretends to be cheating on him with another man. Will Mumtaz be fooled and believe his wife's betrayal of him? Or will he understand the lesson and stop cheating on her?
Acting
Fauzi ElGazaerli's physical comedy as the panicked husband.
Production
Rare surviving print of Egypt's forgotten screwball era.
Director
Togo Mizrahi
Fauzi ElGazaerli
بحبح البحبحاوي/عصفور
Mimi Chakib
فكرية هانم
إحسان الجزايرلي
أم أحمد
Zouzou Chakib
شكرية هانم
Ferdoos Mohamed
ناهد هانم
Tahiya Cariocca
زيزي
Zakeya Ebrahim
أم شلباية
Margaret Safeer
زهيرة هانم
Isabelle
شلباية
Bishara Wakim
نظمي بك
Hassan Fayek
ممتاز بك
Ahmed Elhaddad
حنجل
Keryako Peteryds
مدير اللوكاندة
Hussein Issa
السكرتير
Peer Messy
كاتب اللوكاندة
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Togo Mizrahi was Alexandria's king of commercial cinema, churning out populist hits that blended Egyptian settings with Hollywood-style genres.
Most Mizrahi films are considered lost; this surviving print offers a rare window into Egypt's pre-Nasser film industry when studios operated like well-oiled star machines.
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