A village moral compass vs. Cairo's corruption machine — who's ready to lose?
Season 1 • Episode 31
LatestThe idealistic rural man Abo El-Ela resumes his journey with his family, as he struggles to fight corruption and greed around him while trying to keep his loved ones away from trouble.
Acting
Mahmoud Moursy's patriarchal gravitas anchors every scene
Writing
Osama Anwar Okasha's serialized moral dilemmas, episode after episode
Production
Rural-urban production design that ages like dramatic wine
Creator
Osama Anwar Okasha
Mahmoud Moursy
أبو العلا البشري
Mahmoud El Gendy
عمرو
Medhat Saleh
محسن
Mohamed Wafiq
صفوت
Karima Mokhtar
نعمات
Sawsan Badr
يسرية
Wafaa Sadeq
ليلى
Osama Abbas
عثمان السيسي
Simone
رولا
Magda Zaki
مديحة
Rashwan Tawfiq
تهامي عبدالصادق الشرشابي
Mohamed Metwally
مرتضى البشري
Waheid Seif
مراد البلقاسي
Hassan Hosny
ياسين أبو سمانة
Salah Abdallah
رفعت السحرتي
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Okasha pioneered the 'rural protagonist in urban moral decay' template that dominated 1990s Egyptian television.
Mahmoud Moursy allegedly improvised Abo El-Ela's most devastating monologues; the crew reportedly stopped filming to compose themselves.
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