El Rajul El Ghamid Bisalamatoh

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El Rajul El Ghamid Bisalamatoh, is a 2010 Egyptian movie, directed by Mohsen Ahmed, and starring Hani Ramzy, Nelly Karim, Shaaban Hussein, with a runtime of 120 minutes. Content rating: PG-13.

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El Rajul El Ghamid Bisalamatoh is an Egyptian comedy film starring Hani Ramzy as a young man who tells a small lie out of necessity, only to watch it snowball into an elaborate fiction that everyone around him believes. Trapped by his own invention, he cannot turn back. Meanwhile, as a private-sector employee, he wages a one-man letter-writing campaign to government agencies demanding solutions to Egypt's bread crisis, unemployment, and housing shortage — until a surprising twist thrusts him into the spotlight. The film uses sharp situational comedy to poke fun at bureaucracy and the everyday absurdities of Egyptian life.

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