A Man Against the Law

Feb 8, 1988

1h 40m

★ 0.0

Overview

The teacher leaves Faraj after spending the sentence for cheating on building materials. He returns to the neighborhood and returns to his old life. As if the prison period did not leave any traces, he tries to seize the house owned by his neighbor, on the grounds that he signed a preliminary contract with him to buy the house before To enter the prison and had intended to demolish him to establish a huge building in his house refuses to complete the deal, especially as he rented one of the apartments for a young journalist is Laila, who lives with her mother and loved by the son of the owner Mohsen

Genres

Drama

Production Companies

Tamido Film Production and Distribution (Medhat El-Sherif)

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Cast

Faraj Attia Al-Faramawy

Mahmoud Yassin

Laila

Mervat Amin

Gamalat

Hayatem

Ettra

Farouq Youssef

Ferdous

Amal Ibrahim

Sayed

Ahmad Seyam

Amira

Hanan Shawqi

Nabwiya

Zizi Fared

editor

Mustafa Kamal

Nabil

Abdel Jawad Metwalli

officer

Sayed Mustafa

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