The Glimpse

Jun 19, 2012

1h 30m

★ 5.7

Overview

Fouad is a very ambitious young man who meets the experienced and much older businessman, Gaber. Fouad becomes certain that Gaber will help him fulfill his dreams and goes with him to a trip but he rediscovers many of the facts he didn't know before.

Genres

Drama

Thriller

Crime

Production Companies

صوت القاهرة

فلاش 2000

سبوت 2000

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Cast

Gaber

Hussein Fahmy

Fouad

Ahmed Hatem

Shahy

Mona Hala

أشرف

Haitham Saaed

غازولي

Sabry Abdelmonem

رولا

Maysara

الصاوي

Jalal Abdulqader

الشنواني

Sayed Sadek

شاكرون

Magdy Badr

خالد وردان

Shawqi Shamekh

Heba Abdel Aziz

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