Watch Out for Zouzou

Celebrate the opening of the 10th edition of SAFAR Film Festival with the UK Premiere of the newly restored Watch Out for Zouzou (1972), by Hassan Al-Imam.

The presentation of this much loved classic honours SAFAR’s beginnings as a festival dedicated to popular Arab cinema and was featured in the inaugural programme. Back by popular demand and in a revived format, Watch Out for Zouzou was one of the highest-grossing Egyptian films of all time. Starring Suad Husni – known affectionately as the ‘Cinderella of the Screen’ and often compared to Marilyn Monroe – the story examines societal tensions when traditional values and social mores are challenged by modern liberalism in 1970s Egypt. What could be described in modern terms as a ‘musical dramedy’, the story tells of Zouzou, a student who comes from a family of entertainers, but if her peers were to discover that she is a belly dancer by night both her studies and blossoming romance would be at great risk.