After four years in prison, the young thief Said Mahran is released and seeks revenge against those who betrayed him. His wife and most trusted henchman, who conspired to turn him into the police, are now married to each other and are keeping his six-year-old daughter from him. This felicitous combination of film noir and social commentary, about an ex-con bent on vengeance, builds to a terrific cat-and-mouse finale.

Director: Kamal El Sheikh

Egypt, 1962, 2h10 min, fiction

With Shadia, Kamal Al Shennawi, Shoukry Sarhan.

The film is based on the novel The Thief and the Dogs by literature Nobel prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. Mahfouz was inspired by the life of the famous Egyptian thief Mahmoud Amin Soliman.

Director El Sheikh and cinematographer Kamal Karim use carefully composed lighting and a range of camera techniques to create a wonderfully moody atmosphere.
Made a little more than a decade after the 1952 Egyptian revolution, The Thief and the Dogs presents a world that challenges moral judgments-after all, the protagonists are a thief and a prostitute.

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ARABIC

للص والكلاب إنتاج عام 1962 للكاتب نجيب محفوظ

خراج
كمال الشيخ

الكاتب
صبري عزت (سيناريو)
علي الزرقاني (حوار)
نجيب محفوظ (رواية)

بطولة
شكري سرحان
كمال الشناوي
شادية
نظيم الشعراوي
فاخر فاخر
عدلي كاسب