A Cinderella story with teeth — where inheritance reveals more than gold.
Saadia discovers that she is the daughter of a rich man and has a huge inheritance after his death.
Acting
Mariam Fakhr Eddine's luminous, wounded performance.
Direction
Zulfiqar's elegant framing of class tensions.
Cinematography
Striking black-and-white shadows of 1950s Cairo.
Director
Mahmoud Zulfiqar
Kamal Al-Shenawy
حسين حشمت
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
سعدية
Hussein Reyaad
الباشا
Abdelsalam Al-Nabulsi
زكى
Zouzou Mady
بهيجة
Thuraya Fakhry
زوجة حسنين خال سعدية
Fouad Al-Mohandes
بسيونى
Abdel Aziz Ahmad
حسنين
Souad Makkawi
Omar Al-Hariri
Mohamad El Tokhy
صفوت
Kitty
Omar ElGizawy
Hussain Ismael
على / سفرجى الباشا
Farag ElNahass
المحامي
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film captures 1950s Egypt's anxiety about Westernizing wealth versus traditional values, just before the 1952 revolution upended the social order it depicts.
Mariam Fakhr Eddine was only 19 here; she became the era's 'golden girl' partly because she could sell innocence without seeming naive.
EG
