والدة بلطية
Master Boltia is facing investors trying to control a private beach in the Max area in Alexandria, where she lives with her daughter, leading to a fierce confrontation between her and the investors.
A university girl living in a village flees from her stepfather's constant harassment to Cairo to work in an advertising agency, and later discovers that they are exploiting the girls who work there to achieve personal interests with adults.
Two orphan teachers graduate from one of the shelters in Alexandria heading to Cairo to work in one of the primary schools.
Koky, the little boy whose teacher tells him the story of Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves, does not believe that Ali Baba is a hero and wants to try him for his crimes. His parents perform a trial for Ali Baba to calm him down, but something unexpected happens.
Adel is a journalist for a major newspaper, divorced and single, he was married before and has a daughter. One night, in the bar he always visits, he meets Nash'at al Kashef, the son of a the famous businessman Fahmy Al Kashef. Nash'at kills the bartender and he injures the belly dancer Nadia when she refuses to go back to his house with him. Adel calls the police, but Fahmy uses his power to get the accusation off his son. Adel succeeds in reaching Nadia, the only witness, and makes her confess what she saw to the police, who catch Nash'at and send him to court. Adel falls in love with Mosheera, daughter of Fahmy Al Kashef. The court finds Nash'at not guilty, so Adel decides to set justice to the case by his own hands.
Zouba the maid, loves acting and steals a large sum of money from her wealthy employer Sharif and promises to return it later. She asks filmmaker Farhat to make a film for her after claiming to have inherited her uncle. She gets arrested, but Farhat convinces Sharif to give up his money until the film is finished.
The story revolves around Mursi (Adel Imam), a poor history teacher, married and suffering from an ambitious financial crisis in life, who gets involved with an old colleague at the university (Salwa), who runs her house for prostitution and hides him. Salwa uses the naiveté of Morsi to convince him that he attacked her He is drunk to press him to marry her pregnant.
Abu Zayd and a number of his colleagues are revolting against the teacher Shamrock, the owner of the agency they work for, which is under the leadership of Shushu, which violates the law. They are working in a new agency, which makes Shosho angry. The term of the old agency leader's sentence ends, and he replaces Shamrock, and he, together with his aides, begins to attack Abizaid and his colleagues.
Adel opposes Shawkat's attempts to use his office to carry out suspicious construction work. As Shawkat frames Adel for murder, Adel's fiancée Nagwa enlists the help of Medhat, a lawyer who starts to hit on her, as she pretends to be Adel's sister.
Kamel expels his son Mamdouh after asking him for an amount of money in order to open a nightclub, and begins a project of a poultry farm proposed to him by Hoda, the secretary of his company, who raises her sister Aida, who is looking for wealth, but is not convinced by her fiancée Ahmed, Aida gets acquainted with Mamdouh. One evening he presents her to the dancer, Noosa, who convinces her of her professional dance.
A madman exposes humanity’s insanity. Andeel leaves a mental hospital after 10 years of treatment are over to face the world again. Whenever he reveals that he used to be a mental patient, he is faced with aggressive suspicion, cruelty and rejection. When a shop owner refuses to hire him, he yells that he is the only one with an official certificate that proves he is actually sane. We follow his miserable search for a job and watch situations in which, over and over again, he gets very close to a decent life just before his unrestrained tongue reveals a side of his madness that freaks people out. Andeel is an honest, kind person who’s good at what he does, but people’s uncontrollable fear of madness makes them want to get rid of him and the uncomfortable state he puts them in, probably because of how normal he seems, just like them, yet how crazy he is, like they fear they might be.
Egpyt's submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1960
