The accountant Hussein sees life as a sentence. His family, including his wife who has simulated pregnancy for the last ten years, are the ones causing his weltschmerz. His relatives make life difficult for him and his work is also anything but peace and quiet. After a significant dream, the bomb bursts and Hussein flees, without a plan or destination. This changes when he meets Sayed Boss, who shows him another world full of freedom, in which people are spontaneous, impulsive and emotional. Hussein breathes in this new life and fall sin love with Naima, who eats rats. But his old life hasn't forgotten him.
- Director
- Mohamed Kamel El-Kaliouby
- Premiere
- International premiere
- Country of production
- Egypt
- Year
- 1994
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 1995
- Length
- 120'
- Medium
- 35mm
- International title
- Why Does the Sea Laugh?
- Language
- Arabic
- Producers
- Artistic Production, Ahmed Saad