

A broke nobody becomes a pretend dead man, falls for his fake daughter, and we're supposed to laugh?
Ayoub Gad al-Haq, "Fouad El Mohandes," a simple employee, is struck by the great resemblance between him and the husband of the deceased employer in a big trouble where the small employer's daughter is concerned, thinking that he is her father who died in an accident. The employer asks him to hire a secretary at home so that her daughter, who is not aware of the death of her father, will not be shocked. He falls in love with her, but he does not forget the fact that she is Hanim and he is just a poor employee
Acting
Fouad El Mohandes playing dual roles with theatrical precision.
Writing
Stageplay roots give this relentless farce structure and bite.

Director
Fouad Al-Mohandes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1965 adaptation captures Egypt's golden age of theatre-to-film transfers, when stage stars like El Mohandes dominated cinema through sheer performative charisma.
The impossibly long full names (Ayoub Gad al-Haq Gad Allah Gad al-Mawla / Tabuzadeh) are pure theatrical comedy tradition, mocking Ottoman-Egyptian aristocratic pretension.
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