Cast
Farid Shawqi 
Soad Hosny 
Nour El-Sherif Salah Zulfikar 
Kamal El-Shinnawi Shouweikar
Credits
Written by: 
Ali Badrakhan
Plot
Young activists in Cairo are detained and tortured by the security services after the 1967 defeat, in a politically sensitive drama based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz.
Sinekatalog’s take
A bold, angry drama from the Egyptian cinema of the seventies.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 7.3 / 10 (842 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.
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