"Gin" is a large-scale Egyptian production from 2022, directed by Marwan Hamed, that sets an action narrative inside one of the most consequential chapters of modern Egyptian history. The catalogue lists it under action, drama and history, and it runs a full 175 minutes.
What is Gin about?
Events unfold during Egypt's 1919 revolution, the country-wide uprising directed against the British occupation that followed the First World War. Two men who reach that moment by very different routes find their paths crossing and agree to act together against the occupying power. What follows is organised opposition rather than a single confrontation: recruiting, planning, moving unseen, and living with the permanent risk that any part of the effort is exposed. The running time gives the story room to shift between street-level incident and the broader political pressure of the period, so the action sequences sit alongside longer passages of manoeuvring and consequence.
About the cast
The credited leads are Karim Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Ezz and Hind Sabri, three widely recognised names in present-day Egyptian cinema. K-Time lists them in the order carried by the catalogue record and does not assign specific roles here. Direction is by Marwan Hamed, whose name is attached to a run of ambitious Egyptian features made for a broad regional audience.
Context & significance
The 1919 revolution was a sequence of demonstrations, strikes and confrontations that spread across Egypt after the First World War, aimed at the British protectorate then in force. Participation came from many parts of Egyptian society, in the cities and in the countryside alike, and historians treat the episode as a turning point on the country's path toward formal independence. A film returning to that year works with a heavily documented setting, and this production uses the period as the structural frame for its story rather than as scenery behind it. For viewers outside the region, much of the historical information arrives through physical detail: uniforms, printed notices, streets and the everyday machinery of a colonial administration.
Watching Gin on Ktime
"Gin" streams on K-Time once you are signed in with a K-Time account, while this page stays open to read without logging in. The catalogue record does not list a Persian dub or Persian subtitles for the title, so it plays in its original audio. K-Time is built for Persian-speaking viewers living outside Iran, with a Farsi interface across the web, Android TV and phone apps, and playback that resumes from wherever you stopped.