Hard Labor Hotel

Hard Labor Hotel

1969 · 202 min · Comedy, Music

Al-Soul Maslehi (Samir Ghanem) runs a prison, and his father-in-law (Zakaria Mawafi) offers to rent prison cells as hotel rooms so that he can consummate his marriage to his fiancée (Nora).

Directed by Nour El Demerdash · Written by Fahim Al Qadi

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