She presents an influential human figure and is deceived by her husband

Menna Shalaby on the journey to find salvation “By the Spirit”

Shocking details about the series.

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With an elaborate performance and clear artistic and expressive abilities, the Egyptian star Menna Shalaby takes the scenes on a revealing journey, her features seemed shocking, to the details of the ISIS community in the new Ramadan series “Baltoo’ Al-Rouh” by writer Mohamed Hisham Obeya, and director Kamel Abu Zekry, who chose again to work with Menna Shalaby after The experience of the series “The Sunset Rahat” in Ramadan 2017, to touch this time, like most of its previous film and television works, “mined” fields and thorny areas, through which it penetrated into the depths of the details of the terrorist organization, to present effective and decisive humanitarian approaches to people who have abandoned the “luxury” of their reality. And they preferred to voluntarily fall under the so-called “caliphate state” banner.

vision and errors

The dramatic work, for which its makers chose the timing of a show that is contrary to the norm and far from the rest of the competing works this year (it started with the middle of the Ramadan month), revealed a strong and quick start in which there is no place for introductions and prolongations, to tell the story of its hero (Rouh), whose character is performed by Menna Shalaby, the woman The successful and loving wife for her family who suddenly finds herself in the prisons of the terrorist organization, after she was deceived by her husband, who decided to abandon his successful life and go through the experience of joining ISIS and serving the organization’s “ideologies” and ideas full of contradictions.

The new work, which witnessed, despite the wide wave of controversy that it provoked before the start of its show, was followed up well by the technical errors made by his work team, which were added, finally, to the news of the kidnapping of one of his technical staff while filming his scenes in Lebanon.

credibility

In terms of the plot in general, "Baltoo' Al-Rouh" does not stray from the vision of director Kamel Abu Zekry, whose ability to embody and capture the smallest details and feelings of her characters and their convulsions attracted the admiration of the audience and critics in Egypt.Perhaps it was the matter that withdrew in the work, on the experience of Menna Shalaby, which the director succeeded in presenting in a way that seemed convincing, and most importantly influential in many of the series’s citizens, after the star was able, since the first scenes, to impersonate the features of the mother’s character (Ruh) and adapt to her emotions and responses Her actions and acute psychological struggles are well deserved, especially in the scenes of the beginning and the moment of her child's disappearance and kidnapping at the hands of her husband (Akram), and then he was led towards the Syrian-Turkish border, with whom the character began, the first steps of her assimilation into the hell of her new reality within the ISIS community, revealing From an endless package of shocks, atrocities and "inhumane" practices, to rush, without prior planning, towards a long and desperate search for survival on her own and to save her child's life from inevitable danger.

in the depth

From the first moments of the series’ promotional poster, and early before its episodes were released in the second half of Ramadan, “The Spirit Rising” began to stir up waves of controversy, linked to several topics, some of which intersect with the main theme of the American movie (Not Without My Daughter). Produced in 1991, its events revolve around a mother's attempts to escape her daughter after she was deceived and lured by her husband.

However, this does not negate the sensitivity of the subject matter of the work, which breaks into the heart of ISIS society, trying to present a realistic picture of the practices that were taking place within the “organization”, and how it managed the people affiliated with it, such as the husband of the heroine (Akram), who His character is presented by the artist Mohamed Hatem, the director of the successful advertising company, who was the victim of the polarization of his friend and colleague at the university (Omar El-Desouky), whose character is presented by Ahmed El-Saadani.

• Since the first scenes, Menna Shalabi has succeeded in embodying the features of the mother's personality (Rouh) and adapting to her emotions, reactions and acute psychological struggles.

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