The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973) - Double Feature

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Hammam Al Malatily

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.


Main Cast: Shams El-Barudy, Yousuf Shaaban, Mohamed El Arabi, Nemat Mokhtar, Fayez Halawa, Naima ElSoghier, Abdel Ghani El Nagdi, Souad Nasr, Ahmad Bedir, Ibrahim Abdulraziq

Director: Salah Abu Seif

Writers: Mohsen Zayed, Ismail Waly Eldeen, Salah Abu Seif

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Cinematographer: Abdel Moneim Bahnassy


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