A rainy night, a hit-and-run love story, and Hind Rostom being absolutely devastating.
Escaping his father's cruelty and indifference, Magdy leaves the house on a rainy night and a nightclub owner hits him with her car.
Acting
Hind Rostom owns every frame with wounded glamour.
Cinematography
Rain-soaked streets that look impossibly romantic in black and white.
Director
Zoheir Baker
Hind Rostom
Samira - سميرة
Amaal Farid
Laila - ليلى
Ahmed Ramzy
Magdy - مجدي
Mahmoud El Meligy
Zaki - زكي
Gawaher
stepmother - زوجة الأب
Aziza Helmy
Sannia - سنية
Laila Hamdy
Umm Sayed - أم سيد
Fathiya Abdulghani
Nenaeh - نعناعة
Soheir El-Bably
Shoushu, Laila's friend - شوشو صديقة ليلى
Mohamed El Deeb
Usta Abdo - الأسطى عبده
Abbas El Daly
Hussein - حسين
Hassan Hamed
Ahmed Abdel Fattah
Abdel Moneim Basyouni
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is peak 1950s Egyptian melodrama, when Rostom was reinventing what a 'fallen woman' could look like on screen—sympathetic, gorgeous, and morally complicated.
Zoheir Baker was better known as an actor; this rare directorial effort captures that specific post-revolution Cairo energy where old class structures were crumbling onscreen and off.
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