A rich man loses everything and discovers the only job requirement is... a wife?
Helmi is a rich man who lost all of his money and started looking for a job; and the only one he found is requiring him to get married first.
Acting
Farid Shawqy's physical comedy as a man unravelling in real-time.
Writing
Bureaucratic absurdity that feels accidentally timeless.
Director
Mahmoud Farid
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1960s Egyptian cinema frequently used marriage plots to critique class mobility and bureaucratic hypocrisy under Nasser-era socialism.
Farid Shawqy was Egypt's most bankable comedian; this lesser-known Farid collaboration was recently rediscovered in a damaged print.
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