A Man Against the Law (1988)
Overview
The teacher leaves Faraj after spending the sentence for cheating on building materials. He returns to the neighborhood and returns to his old life. As if the prison period did not leave any traces, he tries to seize the house owned by his neighbor, on the grounds that he signed a preliminary contract with him to buy the house before To enter the prison and had intended to demolish him to establish a huge building in his house refuses to complete the deal, especially as he rented one of the apartments for a young journalist is Laila, who lives with her mother and loved by the son of the owner Mohsen
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Additional Info
| Budget | $145,000.00 |
|---|---|
| Revenue | $22,000.00 |
| Original Language | ar |
| Popularity | 0.588 |
Directed By
Hatem Radi
TOP CAST
Mahmoud Yassin
Faraj Attia Al-Faramawy
Mervat Amin
Laila
Hayatem
Gamalat
Farouq Youssef
Ettra
Amal Ibrahim
Ferdous
Ahmad Seyam
Sayed
Hanan Shawqi
Amira
Zizi Fared
Nabwiya
Mustafa Kamal
editor
Abdel Jawad Metwalli
Nabil
Sayed Mustafa
officer
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