| Al-Boustaguy / El-Bostagy The Postman | |
| Director: | Hussein Kamal |
| Starring: | Shukri Sarhan, Seif Abdelrahman, Zizi Mostapha |
| Distributor: | Cairo Film Production Agency |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
| Country: | Egypt |
| Language: | Egyptian Arabic |
Al-Boustaguy (Egyptian Arabic: البوسطجي / "El Bûstacî", from Ottoman Turkish: Postacı,[1] English: The Postman) is an Egyptian film released in 1968.
Adapted from a novel by the Egyptian writer Yahya Haqqi.
A postal officer takes up a job in a small town in Egypt. The postman starts looking for a house for himself and in the meantime he meets the rich notables of the town. He settles in his house and starts his job. However, he cannot adapt to rural life. He is suffocated by unsympathetic people and monotonous life.[2] One day, opens the letters that a young girl wrote to each other with her lover. Thus, he begins to read their correspondence, learns their secrets.[3] But one day he accidentally causes a letter in the letter to change, also intervenes in the lives of young lovers. This situation initiates a process leading to an unexpected disaster.