Ma'ali al Wazir

2003 Egyptian film

Ahmed Zaki
Yousra
Lebleba
Hesham Abdul Hamid
Omar El-Hariri
Mimi Gamal

Release date

February 2, 2003

Running time

100 MinsCountryEgyptLanguageArabicBox office£E3,371,313

Ma'ali Al Wazir (Arabic: معالي الوزير, lit. 'The Esteemed minister') is an Egyptian feature film, released on 2 February 2003, produced by Egyptian Media Production City, starred by Ahmed Zaki.

Plot

Rafat Rostom becomes a minister by a mistake as they mistake him for another person with the same name, and he starts having intense nightmares about his health and his family. Ra’fat asks his office manager Ateya to accompany him on a vacation to fight these nightmares. he finds out that sleeping in mosques and in police custody keeps him away from nightmares. Ra’fat decides finally to consult a psychiatrist, so he tells Ateya all his secrets and asks him to go to the psychiatrist and act on his behalf. ultimately Ra’fat gets paranoid that Ateya will sell his secrets to the media, so he request to have Ateya killed by a hitman.^[1]