Based on the novel by Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, Adrift on the Nile shows a group of hedonistic middle-aged friends who gather each night for dancing, sex, and drug-use. The film articulates a scathing indictment of the corruption, discontent, and despair of the Egyptian elite preceding the 1967 War. In Arabic with English subtitles.

Hussein Kamal---Egypt---1971---115 mins.