What if confessing to murder was your get-famous-quick scheme?
Yassin is a fame-seeker who makes a deal with the lawyer, Samir, to falsely confess to a famous murder, in the hopes that the media attention will benefit them both, as Samir proves Yassin's innocence at the last moment. But when Yassin is implicated in the crime, Samir has to find the real killer to save him.
Acting
Farid Shawqy's magnetic, morally flexible screen presence.
Production
Cairo 1964 captured in glorious black-and-white.
Director
Mahmoud Farid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This captures Egypt's Golden Age cinema when Cairo rivaled Hollywood for regional production, with stars like Farid Shawqy embodying working-class antiheroes.
The 'false confession for publicity' premise eerily predicts our influencer era — Mahmoud Farid accidentally made a 1964 commentary on 2024.
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