The relationships and difficulties facing a young beautiful teacher with her students during a year of studying, their flirtations, humor and trouble making.
Madraset el-Moshaghbeen [The School of Mischievous] is a comedy play written by Ali Salem and directed by Galal al Sharkawy. Ali Salem adopted the story from a British movie featured in 1967 named To Sir, with Love. It starred with a cast of newcomers like Adel Emam, Saeed Saleh, Younis Shalabi, Ahmad Zaki, and Hasan Mustafa. The story is set in a school that has the five most notoriously mischievous students in the country who keep failing and retaking their last year of high school. The students constant pranks leads all the teachers to a mental break down which forces them to quit the school. This forces the school principal (Hasan Mustafa) to limit the school resources to one class for the five mischievous and to teach them himself. Later in the play another teacher (Soher Al Bably) volunteers to help the students using unorthodox teaching methods.
Madraset el-Moshaghbeen starred a cast of relatively new actors at the time but due to its major success in Egypt and the Middle East it led the actors into stardom. Adel Imam was praised for his comedy and kicked started his career as one of the most popular comedic actors in the Middle East. Ahmad Zaki was highly praised for his role as "Ahmed" and later did more serious roles in Film.
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