A fugitive father crashes his daughter's honeymoon paradise — Egyptian noir doesn't play nice.
After Ismail’s father Ismail is killed, and his mother marries the owner of the company that his dead father worked for, Ahmed turns away to get to know Rouhia, marry her, and live in peace, until the imprisoned Rouhia’s father escapes, to cause a series of surprises.
Acting
Soad Hosny's eyes do what dialogue cannot.
Cinematography
Black-and-white Cairo that breathes claustrophobia.
Direction
Mostafa builds dread like a man who knows the ending hurts.
Director
Hossam El Dine Mostafa
Soad Hosny
Horia حورية
Shoukry Sarhan
Ahmed أحمد
Mahmoud El Meligy
Marawan مروان المجرم
Katkota
راقصه
Kamal Al-Shenawy
توفيق
Najah Salam
محاسن
Thuraya Fakhry
رسمية هانم
Abdel Khaleq Saleh
يونس
ليندا بدوي
ثريا هانم ، أم أحمد
Fawzy Darwish
عم شنوده
Hossam El Dine Mostafa
راكب بالقطار
Ali ElMoaawen
Qadria Kamel
Ahmed Shawqi
الطبيب النفسى
Hosny Claude
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1963 Egyptian cinema was obsessed with class mobility's violence — this film stares at the wreckage.
Soad Hosny shot this between her 'Cinderella' breakthrough and her eventual reign as Arab cinema's eternal face — watch the transformation happen in real time.
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