Fish, Milk, Tamarind
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| Fish, Milk, Tamarind | |
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| سمك لبن تمر هندي | |
| Directed by | Raafat el-Mehi |
| Written by | Raafat el-Mehi |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Mohsen Nasr |
| Edited by | Said Sheikh |
| Music by | Mohammed Hilal |
Production company | Heliopolis Films |
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Release date |
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Running time | 100 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
Fish, Milk, Tamarind (Arabic: سمك لبن تمر هندي, transliterated as Sabak laban tamr hendy) is an Egyptian film released on November 21, 1988. The film was directed and written by Raafat el-Mehi and starred Mahmoud Abdel Aziz and Maali Zayed.
- Mahmoud Abdel Aziz (Ahmed Sbankh)
- Ma'ali Zayed (Qadara)
- Youssef Dawoud (Malik, an Interpol officer)
- Ashraf Abdel Baqi (police car driver)
- Mukhles el-Behairy
- Majdi Fikri
- Maher Salim
- Aisha Al-Kilani
- Mohamed Dardiri
- Mohamed el-Shewihy
- Ehab el-Saadani
- Rawhia Jamal
- Ahmed Shata
- Hassanein Sorour
- Mohamed Eglo
- Myrna Loy
- Mohamed Desouki
- Abdelmoneim el-Nimr
- Mohamed Abu Hashish
- Mervat Kenawy
- Kamal al-Oqr
- Huda Zaki
- Fawzy el-Sharqawi
- Abdelaziz Issa
- Kamal Suleiman
- Hamdy Youssef
- Adawy Gahaith
Synopsis
In a prologue, star Mahmoud Abdel Aziz warns the viewer not to believe their eyes as the policemen and doctors in the film are purely fictional. Co-starring actress Maali Zayed confirms that “it is all smoke and mirrors.”
The veterinarian Dr. Ahmed (Abdel Aziz) wakes up in the morning to find his sister (Aisha Al-Kilani) complaining about the water being off and his mother (Huda Zaki) looking at the picture of his brother who has traveled abroad for work. Ahmed knows that his mother pays a monthly amount to the father of his fiancée Qadara (Zayed) as a dowry ten years into their relationship. Frustrated with the water shutoff and the monthly obligations, Ahmed rushes to his fiancée’s apartment to attack her father, who owns the building and cut off the utility.
When his father dies after a sojourn working abroad, Ahmed comes with Qadara to retrieve the body for burial. An Interpol officer named Malik (Youssef Dawoud), however, refuses to hand over the body, claiming that the father was a terrorist and insinuating that Ahmed and Qadara are as well.
The film then goes off on an increasingly fantastical tangent. Interpol chases the hero and his fiancée, as does another terrorist group that held the father for ransom abroad.[1]