The Bathhouse of Malatily
# Hammam Al Malatily
π Overview:
The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by IsmΓ₯eel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. The main character, Ahmad, leaves rural eastern Egypt for the city hoping to become economically self-sufficient, gets an apartment for his parents, and obtains a law degree. He and his family are refugees from a town occupied by the Israeli army, IsmaΓ₯ilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including NaΓ₯eema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
π Languages Available:
Arabic
π Date Released:
1973-07-02
β Running Time:
106 mins
β Vote Average:
5.7
Beloved Cast
Naima
Shams El-Barudy
Raouf the painter
Yousuf Shaaban
Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam
Mohamed El Arabi
Nemat Mokhtar
Fayez Halawa
Nabawiyah
Naima ElSoghier
Abdel Ghani El Nagdi
Souad Nasr
Antar
Ahmad Bedir
the narrator
Ibrahim Abdulraziq
Said Khalil
Um Ahmed
Nahed Samir
Hassanein
Ibrahim Qadry
Galeela Mahmoud
Ali Mostafa