The Cesar

At a glance

The Cesar, is a 2016 Egyptian series, and starring Youssef El Sherif, Ahmed Saeed Abdel-Ghany, Khaled Zaki. running for 1 season.

Overview

The Cesar is an Egyptian thriller drama shrouded in suspense and moral ambiguity. Al-Kaiser is a dangerous operative embedded within a radical Takfiri extremist group responsible for a string of terrorist attacks. When a major operation goes wrong and the police surround the cell inside one of the Rafah tunnels, demolishing it in a dramatic siege, Al-Kaiser emerges as the only survivor — only to be captured and imprisoned in a facility known as Al-Maghara. The series unravels the psychology of extremism as security forces work to understand what drives a man to such destructive ends, making it a tense and thought-provoking look at radicalization and its consequences.

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