Malatily Bathhouse (1973)
- Original title
- حمام الملاطيلي
- Directed by
- Salah Abu Seif
- Genre
- LGBTQ-related film
- Country
- Egypt
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- 18+
- Rating
- 5.5 of 10 from 11 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young woman enters a bathhouse where secrets and desires clash with social norms. The story follows her encounters with various characters trapped by tradition and hypocrisy.
tensemelancholicunsettlingbleakslow-burnclaustrophobicsocial drama
What happens
Malaṯily Bathhouse (Arabic: حمام الملاطيلي "Ĥamam al-Malaṯily") is a 1973 Egyptian film directed by Salah Abu Seif. It stars Shams al-Baroudi and Yusuf Shåban. The film is adapted from a novel by Ismåeel Walieddin. Samar Habib, author of Female Homosexuality in the Middle East: Histories and Representations, said "that the title of the film can "be easily translated" as Malatily Bathhouse." The opening credits of the film have the English title An Egyptian Tragedy. Habib said that it was "strangely translated" into An Egyptian Tragedy. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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