Gedo Nahnooh

At a glance

Gedo Nahnooh, is a 2018 Egyptian movie, directed by Seif Youssef, and starring Yasser El Tobgy, Mostafa Abu Seriea. Medhat Tekha.

Overview

Gedo Nahnooh is an Egyptian comedy film built on an irresistible premise: a grandfather who dies and leaves his grandchildren not an inheritance, but a riddle. His will instructs them to locate a buried treasure — and when they investigate, they discover it is hidden inside a psychiatric hospital. Undeterred, the group of young men devise a plan to infiltrate the institution in search of their fortune, triggering a cascade of comedic situations as they navigate a world where the boundaries between sanity and madness grow increasingly blurry. A fast-paced comedy of errors, the film mines its absurd setting for both laughs and gentle social commentary on how society draws lines between the ordinary and the eccentric.

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