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Al-Manakh Knights
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Al-Manakh Knights

Feb 23, 1983
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★ 10.0

Overview

The first Gulf economic play centered on an issue that affected members of Kuwaiti society, which sparked widespread controversy between Kuwaiti society and the Gulf community in general, and the issue was the "Al Manakh Market" crisis in 1982, which ended in losses exceeding $ 22 billion. Where the story tells about the second oil boom of the Gulf states at the end of the seventies and the beginning of the eighties of the twentieth century AD where the price of oil increased continuously until the Gulf countries recorded large financial surpluses, so the money poured into the stock market significantly until it opened a stock trading office in a semi-parallel office and was named a market "Al Manakh" in which money flowed greatly from almost all segments of Kuwaiti society and even foreign residents and some individuals from the Gulf states and increased frantic speculation and increased buying and selling for the future until it reached astronomical numbers.

Genres

Drama
Comedy

Production Companies

مركز الفنون للإنتاج الفني والتوزيع

Cast

AbdulHusain AbdulRedha

منصور أبو حظين / أبو راشد

AbdulHusain AbdulRedha

Ghanem Al-Saleh

علي أبو تيله / حمدي / الدكتور

Ghanem Al-Saleh

Ibrahim Al-Sallal

أبو نورة / عدة أدوار

Ibrahim Al-Sallal

Abdelaziz Al-Nemash

أم نورة / عدة أدوار

Abdelaziz Al-Nemash

Muhammad Al-Mannaya

عم أبو حظين

Muhammad Al-Mannaya

Mohamed Al-Saree

نايف الأبجر / الوزير

Mohamed Al-Saree

Dawood Hussein

صخي الديج / زهير

Dawood Hussein

Abdul Emam Abdullah

الدلال أبو بدر / أبو عزوز

Abdul Emam Abdullah

Esteqlal Ahmad

نورة / نخوة

Esteqlal Ahmad

Kathem Al-Zamil

Kathem Al-Zamil

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