The Safe Road

The Safe Road

Seket El Salama , The Safe Road

1964 · 154 min · Comedy, Drama, Thriller

The story revolves around a bus that gets lost in the desert, and the play presents the human models represented by the bus riders and the mistakes and sins of each passenger. When they are about to die of hunger and thirst, each of them declares his repentance and decides to reform himself, so will their positions change after their salvation?

Directed by Saad Ardash · Written by Saad al-Din Wahbah

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Samiha Ayoub سوسو
Tawfiq Al-Deqen الريجيسير
Shafiq Nour ElDein سائق الأتوبيس
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim الصحفي
Fouad Shafiq إسماعيل البحراوي
Ahmed ElGezeiry العمدة سليمان
Ragaa Hussein إلهام - الزوجة الخائنة
Abdel Salam Mohamed فتوح فتحي فتوح
Mahmoud Azmy سائق الفنطاس
Mohamed El-Sabaa حسين أبو السعود - رئيس مجلس إدارة الفلين
Malak el-Gamal مدام جلنار

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