A masterpiece: Directed by the great Salah Abu Seif, written by the controversial Ihsan Abdel Quoddous and stars seven of Egyptian Cinema's greatest actors. A melodrama about a 1950s upper class society set in flamboyant cinematic lighting, color and decor. Salah Abu Seif carefully color codes his characters and their environment using a typically melodramatic score to punctuate points and to accompany the tones and textures of the story. Subtitles in English and French.