Ayam El Ro'ab (1988)
Mahrous, the son of migrant who escaped to Cairo twenty years ago for fear of revenge, is working in an Egyptian Museum. When planning to get married he recieves the news that Aweidah has been released from prison and is out to get revenge on him. Mahrous memories come flooding back and fear returns to his life turning him into a paranoid man. He quits his job and leaves the whole world around him to escape from his inevitable fate. Which means that Mahrous did not completely get rid of the old fear, but with this fear lurking inside all these years. In the end the solution is to confront fear and try to overcome it even if that is the end.
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Egypt
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