A peasant's joy turns to horror when his bride's belly tells a different story.
A Basha is furious when he learns that his son Zaki had an affair with his cousin Hosnia, he also knows that she's pregnant. He makes her marry Ibrahim, one of the peasants working in his land, who rejoices at first but after the sixth month of his marriage, he finds Hosnia giving birth to a child.
Acting
Nour El-Sherif's crushing transformation from joy to devastation.
Direction
Ali Reda's unflinching gaze at class cruelty.
Director
Ali Reda
Soheir El Morshedy
حسنية محمد عبدالسميع / سونيا
Rushdy Abaza
مراد باشا عبدالسميع
Nour El-Sherif
إبراهيم عبدالباقي سويلم
Hussein Fahmy
أحمد محمد عبدالسميع
Noura
رئيفة خورشيد باشا
Sayed Zayan
سيد - صبى المعلمة
Mariam Fakhr Eddine
أم زكى - زوجة مراد باشا
Mohamed Lotfi
زكى مراد باشا عبدالسميع
Nabila El Sayed
عزيزة
Nahed Samir
أم أحمد و حسنية
Ahmed ElGezeiry
محمد أفندى عبدالسميع - ناظر عزبة الباشا
Abdel Aziz Abu Ellil
عبدالباقى سويلم - وكيل عزبة الباشا
Naima ElSoghier
المعلمة بدرية - القوادة
Ahmed Abaza
المعلم رزه - الجزار
Gamal Ismail
الفلاح قرنى - صديق ابراهيم
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1970s Egyptian cinema often used melodrama to critique class systems under censorship—this film smuggles radical ideas through soap-opera packaging.
Rushdy Abaza, playing the villainous Basha, was Egypt's biggest star—casting him as irredeemable was a deliberate subversion of his romantic-lead image.
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