Egypt's first proletariat hero fights bosses in 1943 — and the system hasn't changed.
Al-Asti Ahmed works as a worker in one of the major factories. He is a staunch defender of workers’ rights, and the rest of the workers rally around him in order to defend their cause and rights. However, the factory owners try all the time to plot one machinations against him after another in order to discourage him from his struggle.
Acting
Hussein Sedki's magnetic, grounded lead performance.
Direction
Ahmed Kamel Morsi's urgent, unromanticized social realism.
Production
Authentic factory setting, rare for 1940s Egyptian cinema.
Director
Ahmed Kamel Morsi
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