Stranger In My House

At a glance

Stranger In My House, is a 1982 Egyptian movie, and starring Nour El-Sherif, Soad Hosny, Hassan Mostafa. with a runtime of 100 minutes.

Overview

Stranger In My House is an Egyptian comedy film that follows Shehata Abu Kaff, a footballer from Upper Egypt who moves to Cairo to play professionally for Zamalek club. When accommodation is arranged for him, he falls victim to a real estate scam — the landlord sells the same apartment simultaneously to Shehata and to another woman. Forced to share the space with no legal resolution in sight, the two strangers must navigate the awkward reality of cohabitation, their clashing personalities and backgrounds providing a rich vein of comedic conflict. The film combines fish-out-of-water humour with the culture clash between provincial and urban Egyptian life, delivering a lighthearted look at how ordinary people handle extraordinary inconveniences.

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