The Malatily Bathhouse

Plot Summary

The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. 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.

Top Cast

Shams El-Barudy Naima

Yousuf Shaaban Raouf the painter

Muhammad al-Arabi Ahmed Taher Abdel Salam

Nemat Mokhtar

Fayez Halawa