Drama ·Crime · Egypt · 1978 · 1h 40m

The Criminal

المجرم

Director

Cast

Shams El-Barudy as Ansaf Hassan Youssef as Mounir Mohamed Awad as Zaghloul Sohair El Barooni as Adoula Hamdy Ahmed as Hassouna Amina Rizk as Um Zaghloul

Crew

Mahmoud Nasr — Director of Photography Rashida Abdel Salam — Editor ElSayed Bedir — Writer Salah Abu Seif — Writer Naguib Mahfouz — Writer Émile Zola — Novel

Synopsis

Monier takes advantage of Zaghloul's naivety to take advantage of his family's financial resources to fund his gambling addiction. But he takes it one step further when he throws Zaghloul into the Nile and pretends that he couldn't save him.

Key Collaborators

Salah Abu Seif Director Mahmoud Nasr Director of Photography Rashida Abdel Salam Editor ElSayed Bedir Writer Salah Abu Seif Writer Naguib Mahfouz Writer Émile Zola Novel

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