Those Gentlemen
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| Those Gentlemen | |
|---|---|
| السادة الرجال | |
| Directed by | Raafat el-Mehi |
| Written by | Raafat el-Mehi |
| Produced by | Adel al-Mihi |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Wael Saber |
| Music by | Mohammed Hilal |
Production company | Heliopolis Films |
| Distributed by | Dokki Films and Video |
Release date |
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Running time | 116 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
Those Gentlemen (Arabic: السادة الرجال, transliterated as Al-Sada al-Regal) is an Egyptian film released on July 6, 1987. The film is directed and written by Raafat el-Mehi, and it stars Mahmoud Abdel Aziz and Maali Zayed. The plot involves a woman named Fawzia and her unhappy marriage to her husband Ahmed.
- Mahmoud Abdel Aziz (Ahmed)
- Ma'ali Zayed (Fawzia)
- Hala Fouad (Samira)
- Ibrahim Yusri (Doctor)
- Awatef Ramadan
- Badr Nofal
- Youssef Dawoud
- Mohamed Hamdi
- Shosho Salamen
- Kamal Suleiman
- Mukhles El-Behairy
- Ryad el-Khouly
- Abdelaziz Issa
- Soraya Ezzedine
- Abdul Hamid Anis
- Rashwan Mustafa
- Mahmoud Ajlo
- Kamal al-Aqer
- Youssef Ragaei
- Sabah Mahmoud
- Abdel-Gawad Metwally
Synopsis
Fawzia (Maali Zayed) is a mature woman of great beauty and is married to journalist Ahmed (Mahmoud Abdel Aziz), a powerful man who sees her in the context of the harem, ergo the arbitrary limits within which women are confined to a domestic role circumscribed by the male patriarch. She rebels against this life to the point of deciding to become a man, confiding her troubles but not her plan to her friend and co-worker Samira (Hala Fouad). When her husband is away on a press junket, Fawzia goes to a hospital and undergoes a sex reassignment surgery. Fawzia then becomes Fawzi, a handsome young man, who surprises Samira on their reunion.
Ahmed returns from his trip to someone even manlier than himself. Try as he might to resist, the judges will not approve a divorce. An educated and enlightened man, Ahmed accepts his wife as an independent man, and Fawzi proceeds to marry Samira. Ahmed, himself fond of Samira, almost faints when he discovers her in her nightgown alongside her new husband.[1]