Adrift on the Nile ("Thartharah fawq al-Nil")

Director: Hussein Kamal
Starring: Ahmed Ramzy, Imad Hamdi, Magda El-Khatib
Year: 1971

A simple Egyptian worker, Anis (Hamdi)y, who cannot tolerate the hypocrisy of the Egyptian government (for whom he works at the Ministry of Health) and the illiteracy of the Egyptian public and decides to hide from all the problems in the country by taking up smoking hashish in a shisha, a popular smoking habit in Egypt, to escape from reality.

Comments: A decidedly moralistic, anti-drug movie set in the days before the six-day war in Egypt.

Recommended.