The Guilty (1975)

Original title

المذنبون

Directed by

Said Marzouk

Genre

drama, crime

Country

Egypt

Runtime

1h 51m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A police investigation into the murder of an actress spreads through a web of powerful and corrupt people in Egyptian society. The detectives follow leads that connect the victim to influential figures, revealing a system built on secrets and abuse.

tensebroodingdeliberatemelancholicgrittyunsettlingsuspensefulcerebral

What happens

The Guilty (Arabic: المذنبون, translit: Al Mothneboon) is a 1975 Egyptian crime thriller based on a story of Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz and directed by Said Marzouk. It features an ensemble cast that includes Hussein Fahmy, Salah Zulfikar, Emad Hamdy, Kamal El-Shennawi, Zubaida Tharwat and featuring Soheir Ramzi as Sanaa Kamel, among others. The events of the film center around a murder in which the actress Sanaa Kamel is the victim, and the investigations that extend to all those connected with the dead woman, until the investigations also reach to its branching relationships with several prominent and influential people in power showing all types of corruption in the society at the time. The Guilty was released in 1976 and is listed in the Top 100 films in Egyptian cinema of the 20th century. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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