Your wife's obsessed with her looks, your friend's wife is obsessed with him—whose marriage implodes first?
The story of the small play revolves around the husband’s preoccupation with his wife and daughter, because of work, money collection, and his friend who suffers from his wife’s preoccupation with him all the time to take care of her public and external appearance without caring for him.
Acting
Dalal Abdelaziz nails the vain wife with surprising depth
Writing
Parallel marriages expose double standards brutally
Director
Mahmoud El Barbari
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
El Soghayara (The Small/Little One) typifies 1980s Egyptian commercial cinema's anxiety about shifting gender roles and consumer culture.
The title's double meaning—'the small one' refers to both the daughter and diminishing marital intimacy—suggests the child's presence as symptom, not cause, of breakdown.
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