Regarded as one of the boldest films of the "liberal" 1970s, this award-winning classic is directed by the great Hussein Kamal and written by the controversial Ihsan Abdel Quoddous and featuring a superb cast. A color saturated melodrama and a profound analysis of seventies society and decadence.
Set against the backdrop of the 1967 Six-Day War, the movie adaptation of Naguib Mahfouz's novel follows the escapist, drug-fuelled riverboat meetings of a group of frustrated Egyptians from various walks of life.
Three girls who graduate recently from the university, work in an office in one of the ministries full of men who visit import licenses for one of the capitalists and in exchange for this they receive a bribe from him, after appointing the girls each goes in a way and one of them has the luck of working in the office that edits the false permissions, and the employees try Include them on their side.
A group of farmers move to a government appointed land after their own land is taken away from them. They discover that their new land is not suitable for their crops, and they struggle to make the best out of it. Meanwhile, Haneyya tries to get closer to Hassan, whom she has been in love for years, but she's interrupted by the arrival of Hassan's wife Amina.
Three young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse.
When a hardworking girl meets the love of her life, her happiness is ruined when she discovers that her sweetheart is the son of the owner of the company where she works and his wealthy family adamantly opposes their marriage.
Abdul Sami is married to Aziza, they get to know a beautiful young woman and they agree to get married, and on the day of their marriage his wife is surprised that she is pregnant, and he accuses her of lying, and divorces her. Each of the two wives gives birth to a child and the old wife raises her son, and Abdel Sami lives with his wife. Without knowing each other's truth
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The story revolves around a bus that gets lost in the desert, and the play presents the human models represented by the bus riders and the mistakes and sins of each passenger. When they are about to die of hunger and thirst, each of them declares his repentance and decides to reform himself, so will their positions change after their salvation?
