Karnak (1975) Plot Summary Explained

Release, runtime and language

1975 · 140 mins · Arabic

Directed by

Ali Badrakhan

Starring

Shwikar, Ahmad Bedir, Hassan Hosny, Abdelaziz Makhyoun, Osama Abbas, Nour El-Sherif

In the 1960s, three university friends—Ismail, Zainab and Helmy—find their futures shattered when they are seized by Egypt’s General Intelligence Directorate, subjected to brutal interrogation and torture. The film follows their ordeal amid the era’s repressive state violence, exposing the personal cost of political oppression.