Nasser 56 is a 1996 Egyptian historical film directed by Mohamed Fadel, starring Ahmed Zaki. The film focuses on the nationalization of the Suez Canal by Egypt's second President, Gamal Abdel Nasser, and the subsequent invasion of Egypt by Israel, the United Kingdom, and France.
After a crash, a group of passengers are stranded in the desert. They attempt to cope with their new conditions as the most privileged of them all, an overpaid lawyer, declares himself a dictator of the nearby oasis and names it after him.
A father loses his carpentry workshop after his son-in-law stops paying taxes regularly. His son Hassan, a bus driver, struggles hard to save his father’s workshop, while the daughters try to replace it with a new project inspired by the “Infitah” era.
A capable customs officer is being recruited by a gang to facilitate their smuggling operation. But as he seemingly works for them, he secretly plots with the police to foil their plans.
A woman kidnaps the child Amina from her family and sells her to a thief, Abu Saree, so that Amina grows up in that gang and becomes a thief. She decides to escape the gang and finds her family.
Ahmed Zaki plays a peasant, Mountasir, who gets involved in a criminal racket run by his friend Midhat. Mountasir is betrayed by Midhat and goes to jail. Upon discovering that his wife was forced into prostitution by Midhat, he swears to extract revenge when he leaves jail.
Faten Tawfiq TV presenter. Her husband, the businessman, is killed by the instructions of some corrupt officials in the field of importation. Faten seeks to uncover these corrupt people, coincidentally meets Ali Hawara, an archive officer at an open-minded company, with documents in his hand condemning these bad guys. Faten filmed a ring with an official and faced with these documents. The video and documents suddenly disappear. Faten and Ali get the video and documents again. The bandits chase them to prevent Faten from reaching the television building for the radio station and is assassinated.
When Adel decides to take revenge on his cousin, the businessman Mahmoud Al-Damanhory, who has seized the family's wealth, the journalist Nadia is shot instead. As she and Adel meet, he tries to communicate to her his suffering and she sympathizes with his cause. Can that be enough to save him?
The owner of the shop deals with sex movies, the drug trafficker trades openly, the owner of the cafe allows gambling, and the butcher slaughters outside the slaughterhouse. He prints the personal cards of a senior official and swears his personality to show Officials are interested in warm people, the idea succeeds at first, but the real official appears on one of the visits and the surprise comes.
Najwa, a student, is involved in a relationship with a colleague of hers, so she seduces his mother's husband's shalatah to marry her, but she goes to prison for his suspicious activity and confiscates his money and Najwa loses the way.
Hatim is a businessman working in the field of contracting and building housing. He finds himself accused in a public opinion case, which is the collapse of the buildings he built. He discovers that his men who help him did this without him noticing. A confrontation occurs with his brother, and he kills his brother.
A Drama movie
Atef is a mentally ill, violent young man with a complex relationship with women who turns into a serial killer who sends messages to the police about his crimes. Wafaa tries to save him despite his threats to kill her fiancé through psychological analysis and with the help of the police who are after him. Will Atef stop killing? And what is Wafaa's fate?
Omar, the deaf, mute, is subjected to expulsion and displacement from his home after the death of his father, due to the return of the house to the owner company.
Three friends from different social classes, the first is a victim of his parents' divorce as they both try to win him over, the second lives on the money of his parents who live in the Gulf, and the third is a poor destitute who suffers from his mother running away from home with a drug dealer when he was young.
As a result of poverty, the couple Kamal and Suhair are unable to get married, hence Amer, the businessman, circles around Suhair, taking advantage of her circumstances, and the conflict revolves around.
A dispute arises between Khadra, and her half-brother, Al-Qirsh, over the inheritance of their two children. Al-Qarsh refuses to marry his daughter, Baltia, to Ibrahim, Khadra’s son, because of his bad behavior. Baltia's marriage to Jabir takes place. Khadra plots to kill Jaber and also incites Al-Daksh to kill Al-Qirsh in exchange for her marriage to Baltia, whom he loves.