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Champion of the world
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Champion of the world actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Champion of the world reads strongest on Bingeability, Character Depth and Serialized.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
Salah, a former boxer going through difficult circumstances, is forced to work as a bodyguard. Fate brings him together with Donia, a girl who appears to be from a wealthy family, but her reality is completely different due to debts and her father's absence Donia is forced to ask Salah for help in recovering her father's inheritance, and the journey takes them into a chase led by Al-Mahrouk, the betting leader. As events escalate, they discover that survival does not only mean escaping danger but rediscovering the meaning of trust, love, and a second chance at life.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Hani SarhanWriter
Direction
- Essam Abdel HamidDirector
Cinematography
- Mahmoud YoussefDirector of Photography
Where to watch
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