The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973)
1h 46m
Running Time
July 2, 1973Release Date
The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973)
1h 46m
Running Time
July 2, 1973Release Date
Plot.
The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel 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, Ismaåilia. Ali, the owner of the Malatily Bathhouse, offers to let him stay there for free. Ahmad encounters several characters there, including Naåeema, a prostitute who he becomes obsessed with, and Raouf, a homosexual man.
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Cast & Crew.
Mohamed El Arabi
Actor
Shams El-Barudy
Actress
Fayez Halawa
Actor
Neemat Mokhatar
Actress
Salah Abu Seif
Director
Naima ElSoghier
Nabawiyah
Mohsen Zayed
Writer
Yousuf Shaaban
Actor
Media.
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Wiki.
Malaṯily Bathhouse (Arabic: حمام الملاطيلي "Ĥamam al-Malaṯily") is a 1973 Egyptian film directed by Salah Abu Seif. The main actors are Shams al-Baroudi and Yusuf Shåban. It is adapted from a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. Samar Habib, author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations, said "that the title of the film can "be easily translated" as Malatily Bathhouse." The opening credits of the film have the English title An Egyptian Tragedy. Habib said that it was "strangely translated" into An Egyptian Tragedy.