A bean salesman marries into Zamalek elite and chaos ensues. Class warfare, but make it hilarious.
Abu Zeit al-Hilali works in the sale of beans and falafel, and decides to move to Zamalek, and marries Mervat without the knowledge of her father in his building, but her feelings are still attached to her lover Alaa.
Acting
Samir Ghanem's elastic facial expressions are pure cinema.
Production
Zamalek vs. popular Cairo visual contrast is chef's kiss.
Director
حسين الوكيل
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures 1980s Egypt's open-door economic policy anxiety—working-class characters desperately performing upward mobility.
Samir Ghanem improvised most of his market scenes; the original script had him as a mechanic, not a falafel vendor.
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