"Behind the Sun" clearly identifies the time identity of his film. It follows the horrific military defeat of June 1967, when a senior military commander insists on an investigation into the real causes of the defeat, leading to his assassination by the commander of the military prison , When the rebel military commander refuses to ignore his insistence on requesting this investigation, during the special visit by "Jaafari" commander of the military prison in order to convince him to do so, "Jaafari" can not escape from his assassination by firing bullets,
Acting
Rushdy Abaza's suffocating presence as the doomed Jaafari.
Direction
Radi's prison spaces feel like moral traps closing in.
Writing
Dialogue that weaponizes politeness before the inevitable violence.
Director
Mohammad Radi
Nadia Lotfi
Sohair سهير
Rushdy Abaza
Al-Jaafari الجعفري
Shoukry Sarhan
Dr. Hossam د. حسام
Salah Mansour
Hashem هاشم
Mahmoud El Meligy
Al-Saul Abdul Haq الصول عبدالحق
Mona Gabr
Zainab زينب
ElSayd Rady
Mansour منصور
Ahmed Zaki
Essam عصام
Mohey Ismail
Youssef يوسف
Mohamed Sobhi
Walid وليد
Zein El Ashmawy
Ali علي - مدير مكتب هاشم بك
Mohamed El Dafrawi
military prison officer ضابط بالسجن الحربي
Salah Nazmi
Major General Hassan Salama اللواء حسّان سلامة
Abdel Salam Mohamed
Ali Al Sharif
أحد المعتقلين
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made eleven years after Egypt's 1967 defeat, the film was radical for naming military failure directly—something state cinema rarely dared.
Mohammad Radi shot in actual military prisons; the walls' texture is documentary reality haunting fiction.
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