Khaled El Telmissany
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He worked in cinema since the mid-eighties with his father, director Abdelkader El Telmissany, as an assistant director and production assistant. He started as a grip, then worked...Read more in still photography. He took part in Citizen Masrey, Days of Sadat and El Halal Mountain. He also published three novels. He died on September 4, 2018 in a car crash in South Sinai at the age of 52.
Almuatin Masry
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The film follows the story of a mayor named Abdel Razek Al-Sharshabi (Omar Sharif) when his youngest son, Tawfiq (Khaled Al-Nabawi),is asked to enlist. His wife (Safia Al-Omari) refuses to let her son go, so someone suggests that he send someone to impersonate his son to enlist in his place. Indeed, after intimidation and encouragement, he convinces a poor father named Abdul Mawjoud (Ezzat Al-Alayli) to send his Egyptian son (Abdullah Mahmoud) to enlist, even though he is the only one of his mother and father, in exchange for giving him five acres. Indeed, an Egyptian goes to the army in the name of the mayor’s son.
