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    Title الحفار
    Title in English The Excavator
    Title's Translation Al Hafaar
    Original Title
    Release Year 1996
    Runtime 45
    Category Series
    Subcategory
    Status Released
    Is this a coloured title? Yes
    Egyptian Censorship All Ages
    MPAA Censorship
    Movie Budget 0
    Poster
    Trailer
    Release Date
    21 January 1996 Egypt Yes
    Genre
    Drama
    War
    History
    Country
    Egypt
    Language
    Arabic
    Region
    Filming Locations
    Egypt
    Social Media Links

    Cast

    Section Actor

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Hussein Fahmy 1
    2) Youssef Shabaan 2
    3) Mostafa Fahmi 3
    4) Hala Sedqy 4
    5) Samah Anwar 5
    6) Waheed Seif Producer 6
    7) Hussien El Sherbiny 7
    8) Mohamed El Dafrawi Amin 8
    9) Sawsan Badr 9
    10) Ali Hassanein 10
    11) Lebleba 11
    12) Karam Metawea 12
    13) Aida Abdel Azziz 13
    14) Azza Bahaa 14
    15) Randa 15
    16) Mofid Ashour 16
    17) Ahmad Seyam 17
    18) Rajaa Seraj 18
    19) Hassan Hussein 19
    20) Ahmed Nabil 20
    21) Hamza El Sheimy 21
    22) Abdel Ghany Nasser 22
    23) Samir Waheed David 23
    24) Ahmed Fouad Selim 24
    25) Ahmed Diab 25
    26) Kanaan Wasfy 26
    27) Shadia Abdul Hamid 27
    28) Ahmed Halawa 28
    29) Mohamed Abo El Enein 29
    30) Wafaa Amer 30
    31) Majdi Kamel 31
    32) Ayman El Shewy 32
    33) Ezzat Badran 33
    34) Sherif Khair Allah Magdy 34
    35) Hamdy Hikal 35
    36) Yasser Ali Maher Medhat 36
    37) Abeer Adel 37
    38) Farouk Aitta 38
    39) Tarek Abdel Fattah 39
    40) Abdel Hameed Anees 40
    41) Lamia El Amir 41
    42) Ayman Azab 42
    43) Muhammad Khalil 43
    44) Fathiya Abdulghani 44
    45) Nasser Shahin 45
    46) Jalal Abdulqader 46
    47) Ahmed Hegazi 47
    48) Tarek Kamel 48
    49) Mahmoud Amer 49
    50) Adel Borham 50
    51) Abdulhadi Anwar 51
    52) Mohamed El Adendani 52
    53) Faten Shabbaan 53
    54) Qais Abd Al Fattah 54
    55) Mahmoud El Hefnawy 55
    56) Madiha Anwar 56
    57) Youssef Fawzy John 57
    58) Abdulraheem Hassan 58
    59) Khaled Essawy 60
    60) Hesham Gomaa 61
    61) Gamal Ibrahim 62
    62) Jalal Othman 63
    63) Mohamed Desouqy 64
    64) Emad Al Arousi 65
    65) Sherif Sobhy George 66
    66) Helmy Fouda 67
    67) Hossam El Shrbiny 68
    68) Abdullah Mourad 69
    69) Sharif Awwad 70
    70) Mohamed Radwan 71
    71) Attiya Dawood 72
    72) Salah Hefny 73
    73) Essam Al Shuwaikh 74
    74) Fawziya Ezzat 75
    75) Enas Shalaby 76
    76) Ahmed Ammar 77
    77) Basem Mahfouz 78
    78) Amr Hesham 79
    79) Mahdi Abu Shair 80
    80) Ahmed Abdel Moniem 81
    81) Yahia Ahmed 82
    82) Maged El Kedwany 83
    83) Sherif Helmy 84
    84) Ahmed ELTmane 85
    85) Jamal Al Fishawi 87
    86) El Sayed Abdel Rahman 88
    87) Ahmad Kamali 90
    88) Kazem Shaaban 91
    89) Mohamed Abdel Khalek 92
    90) Ragheb Taaret 93
    91) Mahdi Abbas 94
    92) Ahmad Yousef 95
    93) Mohamed Ahmed Fathi Child 96
    94) Kamal El Alfy 103
    95) Abdel Rahman Lamloum 104
    96) Moustafa Darwish 105
    97) Tarek Mandour 106
    98) Eman Hamdi 107

    Section Cinematographer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Labib Mansour 1
    2) Hosni Mahmoud Photographer 2
    3) Khairy Al Mahelawi Photographer 3
    4) Mahmoud Ata Photographer 4
    5) Yasser Al Mosalamy Photographer 5

    Section Producer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Production Sector -TV & Radio Union (A.R.E.) Producer 1
    2) Abdel Rahman Lamloum 2
    3) Mostafa Abdel Aziz 3
    4) Taha Erfan Executive Producer 4
    5) Khalil Al Masry Executive Producer 5

    Section Makeup Artist

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Ahmed El Dosoky Make-up 1
    2) Farouq Abdel Fattah Hair 2
    3) Hassan Jad Hair 3

    Section Music Composer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Ali Saad 1
    2) Ibrahim Radio 2
    3) Mahmoud Khairy 3

    Section Writer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Saleh Morsi Writer 1
    2) Bashir El Deek Scriptwriter 2
    3) Samir Al Tair 3

    Section Director

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Wafik Wajdi Director 1
    2) Essam Fouad 2
    3) Moataz Maghawry 3

    Section Costume Designer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Safaa Abdel Azem Costume Design 1
    2) Sadeq Al Khouly Costumes 2

    Section Casting

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Mohamed Monji Casting 1
    2) Khaled Hassan Casting 2

    Section Art Director

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Samir Amer Art Director 1
    2) Zeinab el- Shayeb Art Director 2

    Section Distributor

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Financial and Economic Affairs Sector - R.T.U - A.R.E Distributor 2

    Section Other

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Ahmad Al Dallah 2

    Section Editor

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Mohammad Abdel Razeq 2

    Section Photographer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Yousry Marzouq 2

    Section Sound Engineer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Mahmoud Khairy 2

    Section Graphic Designer

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options
    1) Adel McCain 2

    Section Stuntman

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options

    Section Public Relations

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options

    Section Laboratory

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options

    Section Dubbing

    Name Role/Job Order of appearance Options

    Synopsis

    Name Synopses Official ? Options
    Doaa AbdelHameed As the Israeli forces occupy Sinai prior to the War of Attrition, they use an excavator to dig deep in the land, under the pretext they're searching for oil. When the Egyptian authorities discover their true intentions, they try to stop the excavator from reaching Bab El-Mendab. 279

    Summaries

    Name Summaries Official ? Options

    Plots

    Name Plots Official ? Options

    Trivia

    Name Trivia Body Criteria Options

    Reviews

    Name Review Content Spoiler ? Official ? Options

    Episodes

    Season Episode Duration Title Summaries Video Options
    1 1 43 Episode #1 News agencies report that Israel intends to drill for oil in...Read more occupied Sinai, prompting Egyptian intelligence to take action and form a committee headed by Maher, including Ezzat Bilal and Sherif Hashem, to plan to prevent the drilling rig from reaching the Red Sea. 266
    1 2 43 Episode #2 Mr. Baher follows the tugboat pulling the excavator and...Read more forms a friendship with an Israeli captain and his wife. He is then surprised to find the excavator moving to an unknown location, so Sherif sends a message to Fernando requesting information about his new location on the African coast. 293
    1 3 43 Episode #3 The three-member committee, led by Maher, meets and develops...Read more three plans to destroy the excavator. Sherif proposes a fourth alternative plan, and a group of human frogmen is selected to be ready to move at any moment to carry out the mission. 243
    1 4 43 Episode #4 Sherif contacts Officer Zakaria, who supervises journalist...Read more Luna Byrne, to track down news about the digger. Maher suggests to Fouad, the head of public relations, that they produce a film to camouflage the explosives and transport them without arousing suspicion. 264
    1 5 43 Episode #5 Producer Azouz visits actress Dalal to star in the film (A...Read more Woman in the Jungle), and she is surprised by the strange name of the director, Farid Dahni, so she rejects the script. However, Fouad asks her to accept it because it is a cover for a nationalist operation, and she immediately agrees. 294
    1 6 43 Episode #6 Sherif contacts Liz and Norman, two Britons who are helping...Read more Egyptian intelligence track down the excavator. Dalal meets with director Farid Dahni, and they begin preparing to travel to Africa with the help of Souad El-Hakim, assistant director. 245
    1 7 43 Episode #7 Professor Isaac becomes suspicious of Liz and Norman and...Read more attempts to uncover their true identities, claiming to be a botanist while working for Mossad, with the help of Sarah Goldstein, who has proceeded to secure the excavator's route. 237
    1 8 43 Episode #8 Intelligence receives information about the excavator's...Read more approach to the coast of Dakar, so Shawkat is tasked with traveling in disguise with a Turkish passport, carrying explosives, while Sarah, who lost both her husbands in the war, seeks revenge on the Egyptians. 266
    1 9 43 Episode #9 Sarah informs Isaac of the orders to kidnap Liz and Norman...Read more and remove them from the excavator's route. Shawkat arrives in Dakar disguised as a Turkish merchant, and François, who is collaborating with Egypt, succeeds in freeing Liz and Norman from their grasp. 261
    1 10 43 Episode #10 Ibrahim Faraj Allah confirms the arrival of the excavator...Read more from Dakar, so Sherif prepares to travel with his replacement, engineer Suleiman Abdel-Barr. On the other hand, artist Dalal falls in love with Farid Dahni while filming the camouflage film in Africa. 259
    1 11 43 Episode #11 Sherif arrives in Dakar, ready to receive the frogmen. At...Read more the same time, Shawkat gathers accurate information about the port through which the excavator will enter, and Ibrahim secures the group's accommodation. 212
    1 12 43 Episode #12 Cairo issues orders to strike the drilling rig in the port...Read more of Dakar. Sherif and Shawkat begin monitoring it, while the frogmen arrive to begin the actual preparations for carrying out the bombing operation. 207
    1 13 43 Episode #13 Sarah becomes suspicious of Engineer Suleiman and monitors...Read more him, then orders the locomotive to move immediately before the maintenance is completed. Intelligence is surprised by the excavator's movement and begins planning a new plan after the failure of the first operation. 275
    1 14 43 Episode #14 The intelligence chief personally follows the developments...Read more and decides to send Shawkat to Abidjan with the explosives, while news spreads of the arrival of American astronauts in the city to cover their movements from view. 224
    1 15 43 Episode #15 All possible scenarios are considered if the drilling rig...Read more does not dock in Abidjan, and Zakaria is called in to secure journalist Luna, while the option of hitting the drilling rig with missiles in Lagos is discussed as a backup plan. 235
    1 16 43 Episode #16 Sarah and Isaac disguise themselves as journalists to...Read more monitor the excavator's progress in Abidjan, and begin special training on the use of shoulder-launched missiles in preparation for a possible strike in Lagos. 214
    1 17 43 Episode #17 A special squad arrives in Lagos disguised as extras for...Read more Farid's film crew, while Ibrahim continues to gather information on nearby ports and is tasked with preparing a report on Port Harcord. 193
    1 18 43 Episode #18 The tugboat pulling the excavator stops twenty miles before...Read more Abidjan, and intelligence verifies that it is very close to the port, while Shawkat reports that he saw it northeast of Abidjan awaiting official entry. 213
    1 19 43 Episode #19 Sarah tries to harass Luna after she suspects her of having...Read more ties to Egyptian intelligence, while Souad visits the Egyptian embassy in Lagos to deliver photographic files to the ports, and the excavator remains stationary. 222
    1 20 43 Episode #20 Sarah begins monitoring Shawkat, who claims to be a Turkish...Read more merchant, while Shawkat provides intelligence on suitable locations to strike the excavator, and Sherif travels to Abidjan carrying explosives to prepare the operation. 229
    1 21 43 Episode #21 Sherif arrives in Abidjan and meets with Shawkat to...Read more determine the launch point. They plan to blow up the drill while the astronauts are being received to ensure that attention is diverted. In the meantime, Sarah and Isaac continue to monitor Luna. 248
    1 22 43 Episode #22 Sherif decides to carry out the bombing with only three...Read more frogs to ensure a quick strike. Shawkat delivers the equipment to the designated location, and on March 8, 1970, Egypt detonates the drill in a heroic operation that shakes the enemy. 240
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