The Escape (1991)
El-Huroob
122 min
Ahmed Zaki plays a peasant, Mountasir, who gets involved in a criminal racket run by his friend Midhat. Mountasir is betrayed by Midhat and goes to jail. Upon discovering that his wife was forced into prostitution by Midhat, he swears to extract revenge when he leaves jail.
- Release date
- April 16, 1991
- Country of origin
- Egypt
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Cast
- Ahmed Zaki as Muntaser Abdulghaffar
- Abdulaziz Makhyoon as Salem Zidane
- Hala Sedki as Sabah
- Mohamed Wafik as Colonel Fouad Al-Sharnoubi
- Abu Bakr Ezzat as Major General Ismail
- Hassan Hosny as Minister assistant
- Yusuf Fawzi as Medhat
- Salah Abdalla as Forger Mr. Makhzangi
- Mohamed Henedi as Qenawy Abu Ismail
- Ahmad Adam as Journalist Aziz
- Sherif Mounir
- Hanem Mohamed as Umm Zainab
- Mohamed Abu Hashish
- Metawee Eweiss as Zachary
- Mofeed Ashour as Captain Magdy
- Aida Fahmy as Zeinab
- Ahmed Abo Abeya as Montaser’s uncle and Zainab’s father
- Nahed Ismail as Umm Saeed, Montaser’s neighbor
- Ahmad Abu-Abiyyah as Muntaser's uncle and Zainab's father
- Hussein Arar as Newspaper seller
- Mufid Ashoor as Lieutenant Magdi
- Said Chambar
- Ahmad El-Adhal as Khater
Crew
- Atef El-Tayeb · Director
- Mostafa Moharram · Writer