A 1973 Egyptian thriller that dared to whisper about rape when everyone else stayed silent.
A teenage girl trying to get over an incident of rape she suffered when she was young
Acting
Mervat Amin's trembling restraint—screams without screaming.
Direction
Kikhia navigates censorship through implication, not explicitness.
Score
Omar Khorsheid's guitar weeps where dialogue cannot.
Director
Abdel Rahman Kikhia
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
One of the earliest Egyptian films to center rape trauma, released during Sadat's 'corrective revolution' when social realism briefly flourished before commercial cinema crushed it.
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