Haniya lives with her sick aunt. She meets Mahmoud the mechanic and agrees to marry him. Mahmoud and Haniya continue to take care of the sick aunt until her illness worsens. Before her death, the aunt tells Haniya that she has an uncle named Radwan, a wealthy man. After her death, Haniya searches for her uncle with Mahmoud's help, as her aunt had instructed her to do.
Acting
Ragaa Abdo's restrained devastation carries every frame.
Direction
Selim's neorealist touches before neorealism had a name.
Cinematography
Cairo's streets as moral landscape, gorgeous and unforgiving.
Director
Kamal Selim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
El Mazaher arrived as Egyptian cinema was shifting from pure entertainment to social realism, with Selim part of a small wave examining working-class women's limited options.
Ismail Yasseen's comic relief role as Samak was reportedly expanded during production — studio nervousness about the film's bleakness.
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