Mahgoub is a villager who moves to Cairo in search of a better life. When he enlists friend Salem's help to find him a job, Salem not only gets him a job at the ministry where he works but he finds him a bride as well. But the bride is the mistress of Qasem Bek, who will be visiting her once a week.
Acting
Soad Hosny's eyes say everything her character cannot.
Cinematography
Shadows that swallow dignity whole.
Direction
Abu Seif turns a marriage into a transaction.
Director
Salah Abu Seif
Soad Hosny
إحسان
Hamdy Ahmed
محجوب عبدالدايم
Abdel Aziz Mekwi
علي طه
Abdel Moneim Ibrahim
أحمد بدير
Ahmed Tawfiq
سالم الإخشيدي
Ahmed Mazhar
الوزير قاسم بك
Tawfiq Al-Deqen
والد إحسان/ شحاته تركى
Shafiq Nour ElDein
والد محجوب عبدالدايم
Aqeila Rateb
زوجة الوزير
Naima ElSoghier
والدة إحسان
Raouf Moustafa
منصور
Bahiga Hafez
إكرام هانم نيروز
Youssef Wahby
ضيف شرف/يوسف وهبي
Soheir El Morshedy
ضيف شرف
Ahmed El Hamaky
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Naguib Mahfouz's novel, this captures Egypt's pre-1952 revolution aristocracy in decay—land reform was coming, and the film smells it.
Soad Hosny, only 23 here, became Egypt's 'Cinderella of the Screen'—this role's darkness made her a star.
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