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and directed by

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. It is a loose retelling of ''

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''. It starred a cast of newcomers like Adel Emam,

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, Ahmad Zaki, and

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Overview

Unlike the original film, which is a drama dealing with racial and social issues in an inner city school, the Egyptian remake is primarily a comedy about five most notoriously bad students in the country who keep failing and retaking their last year of high school whose previous teachers were all led to mental breakdowns due to their pranks. ''Madraset el-Moshaghbeen'' starred a cast of relatively new actors at the time, but due to its major success in Egypt and the Middle East it led the actors into stardom. Adel Imam was praised for his comedy and kicked started his career as one of the most popular comedic actors in the Middle East. Ahmad Zaki was highly praised for his role as Ahmed" and later did more serious roles in film.

Plot

The story takes place in a school that consists of five rebellious students grouped together in one class, who have failed, for over a decade, to graduate school. The principal decides to hire a new female teacher, thinking that she can improve the behavior of these students. Effat, the new female teacher, takes on the task, meeting with little initial success. The plot concerns the back and forth between the students and their teacher's attempts at working with them.

Legacy

The play is considered a classic, and is an Eid favourite. It was released on Netflix in 2020. In 2021, after decades in black and white, the play began streaming in colour, after sponsoring by the Saudi

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Cast

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as Effat * Adel Emam as Bahgat El Abasery *

as Morsi El Zanaty *

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as Mansour *

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as Lotfy * Ahmad Zaki as Ahmad * Hassan Moustafa as Abdel Moati the Principal *

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as Bahgat's father * Abd Allah Farghali as Allam El Mallawanny *

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El Din as Jaber

References

{{Reflist Egyptian plays 1973 plays