Miniseries · MBC Shahid
Release
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Amr Saad
عباس الريس
30 eps
Tara Emad
كريمة
30 eps
Abdelaziz Makhyoun
عليان الريس
30 eps
Hatim Salah
شداد
30 eps
Alaa Morsy
ذكي
30 eps
Samaa Ibrahem
أم عباس
30 eps
Sherif Desouqy
مختار
30 eps
Ahmed Abdelhamid
عوف
30 eps
Saffwa
تحية
30 eps
Donia Maher
علية
30 eps
Bassant Shawqi
وفاء
30 eps
Gehad Hossam El Din
عايدة
30 eps
Omar El Saeed
يونس
30 eps
Dona Emam
انجي
30 eps
Reda Idrees
30 eps
Hassan El-Adl
زين
30 eps
Jihan Khairy
نور
30 eps
Mohsen Mansour
شارون
30 eps
Alaa Awad
جنيدي
30 eps
Nahed El Sebai
ابتهال
30 eps
Mohamed Soliman
عاصم
30 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Release actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Release reads strongest on Serialized, Character Depth and Bingeability.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
The story
What it's about
After 15 years behind bars, Abbas El Rayyes walks free—stained with the blood of his family. With his cousin’s help, he seeks redemption, only to confront a world far darker than his prison cell.
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.
Executive production
- Sadek SabbahProducer
Writing
- Qalam WorkshopWriter
- Ahmed HelbaWriter
- Mohamed FawzyWriter
- Ahmed BakrWriter
Direction
- Ahmed Khaled MousaDirector
Cinematography
- Islam AbdelsamieDirector of Photography
Where to watch
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