A dying man hires his own burglar to assassinate him—then the doctor says 'oops, you're fine.'
The events of the film take place in a comedic sarcastic framework when a young man thinks that he will die within a few weeks, and decides to get rid of his life quickly, and agrees with a thief who came to steal his house to kill him inattention in exchange for an amount of money, then the doctor assures him of his safety, so he tries to escape From the thief who chases him everywhere to implement the agreement, and at the same time he falls in love with a beautiful girl and decides to join her, and the events and paradoxes follow
Acting
Fouad Al-Mohandes panic-to-romance whiplash
Direction
Hasan El-Saifi's door-slamming farce precision
Writing
Ironclad contract comedy, Arab-style
Director
Hasan El-Saifi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film exemplifies the golden age of Egyptian commercial cinema, when studios released hundreds of comedies annually targeting urban middle-class audiences.
Fouad Al-Mohandes was Egypt's most bankable comedian of the 1960s; his partnership with director El-Saifi produced multiple hits using this exact 'panicked everyman' formula.
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