She escaped the spotlight for love—then poverty dragged her back. Cairo's cruelest test of devotion.
A singer who works in a nightclub, and seeks to retire from this world, meets a poor young man who falls in love with her and asks for her hand in marriage, so she accepts, and leaves the world of cabarets and the two live a happy life. The woman appears to be very loyal, as she serves her disabled father-in-law, but her husband feels that he does not provide her with happiness, so he is forced to embezzle an amount of money from the company he works for, and he goes to prison, and in light of the life circumstances she lives in, she decides to return to work in the bar again.
Acting
Huda Sultan's eyes do more acting than most performers' whole bodies
Direction
Hassan Al-Imam frames Cairo's nightlife as both seductive and suffocating
Director
Hassan Al-Imam
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This 1960 Egyptian melodrama captures the Nasser-era tension between 'modern' working women and traditional moral judgment. Nightclub singers were culturally coded as 'fallen women' regardless of circumstance.
Huda Sultan reportedly insisted on doing her own singing, rare for actresses of this era who typically lip-synced to professional vocalists. The rawness is authentic.
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