The Bathhouse of Malatily [263918] Released: 1973-07-02 Revenue: $0 Budget: $0 Profit: $0 Runtime: 106 mins Popularity: 0.3875 Vote Average: 5.7 Vote Count: 9 Overview: The film is an adaptation of the novel Samar Habib by Ismåeel Walieddin. author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations. 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. Cast [15] Shams El-BarudyNaima Yousuf ShaabanRaouf the painte Mohamed El ArabiAhmed Taher Abde Nemat Mokhtar Fayez Halawa Naima ElSoghierNabawiyah Abdel Ghani El Nagdi Souad Nasr Ahmad BedirAntar Ibrahim Abdulraziqthe narrator Said Khalil Nahed SamirUm Ahmed Ibrahim QadryHassanein Galeela Mahmoud Ali Mostafa Trailers