The Guilty (1975 film)

The Guilty
Egyptian Arabicالمذنبون
Directed bySaid Marzouk
Written byNaguib Mahfouz
Screenplay byMamdouh El Leithy
Produced byIhab El Leithy
Starring
CinematographyMahmoud Bakr
Edited bySaid El Sheikh
Music byGamal Salama
Production
company
Ihab El Leithy Films
Distributed byIhab El Leithy Films
Release date
  • 23 September 1975 (1975-09-23)
Running time
111 minutes
CountryEgypt
LanguageEgyptian Arabic

The Guilty (Egyptian Arabic: المذنبون translit: Al Mothneboon) is a 1975 Egyptian crime thriller based on a story of Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz and directed by Said Marzouk. It features an ensemble cast that includes Hussein Fahmy, Salah Zulfikar, Emad Hamdy, Kamal El-Shennawi, Zubaida Tharwat and featuring Soheir Ramzi as Sanaa Kamel, among others.[1][2][3][4][5]

The events of the film center around a murder in which the actress Sanaa Kamel is the victim, and the investigations that extend to all those connected with the dead woman, until the investigations also reach to its branching relationships with several prominent and influential people in power showing all types of corruption in the society at the time. The Guilty was released in 1976 and is listed in the Top 100 films in Egyptian cinema of the 20th century.[6][7][8][9]

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