A scheming mother, a love trap, and a house everyone wants — classic Egyptian melodrama at its messiest.
Nafusa's mother owns an old house in which a widow has a share. She gets close to the widow's son, Kamal, to get him to convince his mother to sell the house
Acting
Samira Ahmed's deliciously calculating Nafusa.
Production
Cairo 1959 captured in smoky black-and-white.
Director
Ibrahim Emara
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Reflects 1950s Egypt's housing crisis, where inherited property was often a woman's only economic security.
Shoukry Sarhan and Samira Ahmed were frequent co-stars; their chemistry here reportedly caused real-life gossip columns to explode.
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