Details

Release year: 2009

Storyline

An Egyptian woman discovers that her husband is in fact a Jewish Mossad agent working for Israel. He takes her and their two children to Israel by force and tries to convince her to live with him by force. Mostafa, an Egyptian Intelligence Agent sent by SSI, travels to Israel and tries to help Salwa return to Egypt.

Top credits

Directors

Sherif Arafa

Writers

Amr Samir Atef

Cast

Sherif Mounir — Izzat Abdulhamid, Daniel Lavon
Karim Abdel Aziz — Mustafa
Mona Zaki — Salwa
Kinda Alloush — Darin

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Did you know

• The number 48 is mentioned twice in the movie : first it's the number of the building that Salwa and Daniel live in , and it's the address of the place that Mostafa (Kareem Abdel-Azeez) asks Salwa to escape to during his fight with an agent in her neighbor's apartment. 48 is a reference to 1948, the year of Arab-Israeli War .

• According to an interview , Amr Samir Atef who wrote the script mentioned that the idea of the movie came to him when he was on vacation with his wife joking with her about him being spy working for the Mossad , his joke represented in the movie in an earlier scene seconds before her kidnapping .. only Salwa's husband (Sherif Mounir)in the film actually meant his words.

• Karim Abdel Aziz fractured his left foot during filming and had to receive physical therapy in Germany.