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, Maged el-Masry, and

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. The story concerns a young Abdelaziz, who returns to

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from another unspecified

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country. Coming back to his aunt Fakiha's apartment, he discovers that it has become a

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run by a madam who denies that she is related to him.

Cast

(Lola) * Maged el-Masry (Abdelaziz) *

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(Hassan el-Demerdash) *

(Basant Abdel-Al/Fakiha al-Sharnoubi/Sitt al-Satat) * Entessar (Zeinab/Dudu) *

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(Mamoun Hafez) * Mukhles al-Buhairi (Major General Azzouz) * Saeed al-Saleh (Fawzy, a paralegal) * Ahmed Rizk (Hamada, a soldier) * Abdulrahim El-Tanir (minister) * Mohaja Abdelrahman (Sheikha Hosina) * Diaa Abdel Khalek (taxi driver) * Nashat Talaat * Ahmed Saeed * Najah Fahim * Iman Wahba * Youssef Abdelmaqsoud * Hazem Fouad * Laila Abdelhakim * Hazem Mamdouh * Jihan Wehbe * Laila Helmy * Moushira * Azza Fouad * Ismat Kamal * Ahmed Samir * Rasha Fouad * Ahmed Bahloul

Synopsis

The comedy's protagonist Abdelaziz ( Maged el-Masry) returns to

from working in another unnamed

country. Going to the apartment of his aunt Fakiha (

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), he discovers that it has become a brothel. Lola (

), one of the

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s there, tries to convince him to marry her. He has them make the place a

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, but they carry on their old profession anyway. Everyone is arrested, and Abdelaziz discovers a big surprise.

Legacy

Critic Nisreen al-Rashidi cited the film among others on the website 3ain, remarking that:

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has presented women and dealt with their problems throughout its history, even addressing them by name, sometimes as “mara”
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External links

El Cinema page

Dhliz page

Karohat page

References

{{reflist Egyptian comedy-drama films 1998 films