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The Green Doorstep, is a 1959 Egyptian movie, directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab, and starring Ismail Yasseen, Sabah, Ahmed Mazhar. with a runtime of 110 minutes.
Al-Ataba Al-Khadra (The Green Doorstep) is an Egyptian comedy film that mines rich humor from the classic tale of rural innocence meeting big-city cunning. Mahrous, a guileless man from Upper Egypt, arrives in Cairo for the first time and almost immediately falls prey to a smooth-talking fraudster who reads his naivety with precision. Seizing on Mahrous's wide-eyed wonder at the bustling capital, the con man convinces him that he can arrange the sale of the iconic Al-Ataba Al-Khadra square in downtown Cairo — one of the city's most famous public landmarks. The comedy unfolds as Mahrous takes the impossible deal at face value, generating a series of warm, farcical situations that affectionately lampoon the culture clash between provincial Egypt and the street-smart world of Cairo.
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