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Hard Labor Hotel

Hard Labor Hotel

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1969
3h 22m
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Al-Soul Maslehi (Samir Ghanem) runs a prison, and his father-in-law (Zakaria Mawafi) offers to rent prison cells as hotel rooms so that he can consummate his marriage to his fiancée (Nora).

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