The Downtown Apartment

Aug 29, 1975

1h 56m

★ 0.0

Overview

In a representation of the housing problem in Egypt, a group of friends reunited by their search for an apartment encounter different problems as Kamal is looking for a place to turn into an art studio and Sherif is trying to find a place where he and his wife can live.

Genres

Drama

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Cast

Kamal

Mahmoud Yassin

Sherif

Nour El-Sherif

Mona

Mervat Amin

Hamdi

Salah El-Saadany

Madiha

Zizi El-Badrawy

Najwa

Shahira

Madiha's father

Nazim Sharawy

Sayed Zayan

Sabry Abdelmonem

Souad Nasr

Youssef Eid

Fifi Youssef

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