The Baby Doll Night

May 28, 2008

2h 30m

★ 5.4

Can one night of pleasure mend sixty years of pain?

Overview

Hossam, an Egyptian tour guide working in the US, comes to Egypt on vacation during New Year's Eve and hopes to spend a romantic night with his wife in their hotel. Unbeknownst to him, Awadain the terrorist who has other plans for the hotel that night.

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Good New Group

The Baby Doll Night Trailers

Cast

Mahmoud Abdel Aziz

Nour El-Sherif

سميحة

Sulaf Fawakherji

Jamal Soleiman

Layla Olwy

Mahmoud Hemida

Ghada Abdel Razek

Ezzat Abu Ouf

Ahmed Mekky

Gamil Ratib

Mostafa Haridy

Dorra Zarrouk

The film is an adaptation of a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. 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.

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