The investigator discovers the disappearance of a precious earring was with the actress and knows that its owner is the mother of the preacher, and her fiancé, the director, admits that he killed her out of jealousy, as he saw her in bed with a man of authority.
The Guilty was the fourth feature film by director Said Marzouk The story was written by Naguib Mahfouz while the script and dialogue was written by Mamdouh El-Leithy, its events revolve in the form of a police investigation about the murder of a famous film actress during one of the nights, which included a large group of the various personalities of society..When these personalities are investigated as being accused of the crime of murder, it becomes clear that each of them has a crime of corruption no less than murder in its ugliness..This is a school headmaster who leaks the exam..and this is a doctor who performs abortions..and this is an engineer who cheats in construction.
He decided to stop showing the film and transfer its entire censorship file to the Administrative Prosecution to punish the agency..Then he issued Resolution No.
220 of 1976 regarding tightening the basic rules for censorship of artistic works, a decision that filmmakers considered a crime against Egyptian cinema, as the most important of its provisions was to ban all scenes, movements and phrases with sexual significance, prohibiting dance scenes, not showing crimes of revenge and taking revenge, not displaying suicide, not presenting social problems in a way that calls for spreading despair in the hearts of the masses.
As for the oversight body, its head, “Excellent Moderation,” was referred to retirement and transferred, along with 14 others from the agency, to the Supreme Disciplinary Court on charges of gross breach of job duties.