Overview
In 1960s Egypt, a humble flower seller from Alexandria is drawn into a journalist's social experiment: to impersonate a millionaire’s daughter and spend a week living among Cairo’s elite, exposing the stark divide between classes in a rapidly modernizing society.
Director and cast
- Nagat Al-Saghera as Karawana / Hoda
- Hasan Youssef as Hussein Mahmoud
- Amin Elheneidy as Uncle Amin/ Ahmed El Tanbashawy
- Adel Emam as Shukry the journalist
- Youssef Fakhr El Din as Youssef
- Shahinaz Taha as Mervat
- Nadia Seif ElNasr as Sayda
- Tawfiq Al-Deqen Cast
- Salama Elias as Editor-in-Chief
- Eskandar Mansy as treasury employee
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