SATTAR
Genre
Comedy and Action
Running time
100 minutes
Year
2022
Language
Arabic
Country
Saudi Arabia
Director
Abdullah Al-Arak
Bio
Producer
Ahmed Moussa
Cast
Ibrahim Alhajjaj, Abdul Aziz Al Shehri, Abdul Aziz Al Mubadala, Shahd Al-Qafary, Ibrahim Khairallah, Moaz Al Marri
Scriptwriter
Ibrahim Khairallah, Ayman Wattar, Osama Al-Fadhel, Wael Al-Saeed
Saad, a young man who loves professional wrestling, gets excited when EEW, a professional wrestling promotion, announces that they're holding auditions in Riyadh. Saad goes to the audition hoping to become a Saudi wrestler and then start his global journey from Riyadh to success. He fails in the auditions conducted by EEW, but his luck has not completely run out as he meets Ali Hogan, an eccentric man who offers to be Saad's manager and promises to change his life. Sa'ad, with the help of Ali, joins smaller wrestling promotions in Riyadh, filled with different Saudi wrestlers, all with their own gimmick, in hopes of one day being good enough to join EEW and live out his dreams.
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