Tharthara foq al-Nil AKA Adrift on the Nile (Hussein Kamal, 1971)

This 1971 production is a profound look at the decadence and confusion after the 1967 war during the end of the Nasserite era. It is based on the controversial novel by the Egyptian Nobel Prize Laureate for Literature Naguib Mahfouz. It features a stellar cast of super stars such Ahmed Ramzi, Mervat Amin, Emad Hamdi, Suhair Ramzi, Adel Adham and was directed by the great Hussein Kamal. Based on a Naguib Mahfouz novel, Chitchat on the Nile depicts Egyptian society in the Nasser period as corrupt. The film opens with a film star meeting a low-level government official while buying drugs. They are former neighbors, and on this basis the film star invites his old acquaintance to join him in regular gatherings on a houseboat to smoke hashish. Regular habitués of the houseboat include a lawyer, a novelist, a housewife, and a student. Together they suggest profound and pervasive social decadence. However, when an idealistic young journalist joins them the turpitude of the houseboat is disturbed. https://www.imdb.com/fr/title/tt0356117/