A Citizen Under Investigation is the great Egyptian director Henry Barakat's last film, and a damning indictment of Egypt's ruling military dictatorship.
Social & External
The people behind it
Farouq Al Fishawy
Tawfiq Abdul Rahman
Ashraf Abdel Baky
Ahmad
Mahmoud El Gendy
Journalist Hamdi
Sohier Ramzy
Nadia Othman
Hassan Hosny
Murad Mansour
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
Khairiya Othman
Khalil Morsi
Detective
Ezzat ElMashad
Ahmed Abu Abiya
Antar
Hamdy Morsi
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