Attaly Battaly

Jan 1, 2017

3h 8m

★ 6.0

Overview

It highlights an issue that concerns the Kuwaiti society, and has its negative effects on all social segments, which is the issue of unemployment and tries to search for its causes, and also discusses other social and family issues in a comedic format, with light political touches.

Genres

Comedy

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Cast

Hasan Al Ballam

Ahmed Al-Aounan

Fahad Al Bannai

Mubarak Al Mana

Mohamed Al-Ramadan

Abdulaziz Al-Nassar

Nouf Al Sultan

The twelve-year-old Emil and his father are haunted by bad luck. To take a break from a series of family disasters, Emil is allowed to spend a few days with a friend of the family, the female priest Hummel in Berlin. In the train he runs across the slick Max Grundeis who anaesthetizes Emil and steals his savings of 1500 DM. When he finally arrives in Berlin, Emil and a gang of street kids, led by the cheeky girl Pony Hütchen, try to find the gangster, who haunts the posh Hotel Adlon as a hotel thief. Meanwhile, to prevent anyone from finding out about Emil's mishap, Gypsi, a member of the gang of kids, passes himself off as Emil, thus wreaking havoc on the home of the priest.

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6.1

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5.1

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6.5

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8.3

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6.6

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5.7

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6.5

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5.5

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