Hero of Paper

Rami Qashua writes screenplays. He has begun to make a living from them. His new script is a crime story. There is theft and murder in it. The text goes out to be typed. The typist is called Samir. Samir has always felt passed over. He wants to prove something. He decides to carry out the script step by step. First he steals explosives from a quarry. Then he robs a cooperative. Rami reads about it in the paper and understands, because the events are following the order he wrote. He finds the journalist who covered the story, and with Sawsan he sets out to stop Samir. Mamdouh Abdelalim and Athar ElHakim lead the two hour film, an Egyptian production Nader Galal finished in 1988.