Love, lies, and a fetus that tore Cairo's elite apart.
A girl is married to a doctor and they are living a love story. She was the target of all the relatives who tried to ruin this marriage and they actually succeeded in doing so. The wife was jealous of her husband because of her friend who asked her friend's husband, the doctor, to get rid of the fetus she had conceived from her lover, but the doctor refused, so the family collapsed because of the wife's suspicions.
Acting
Youssef Wahby's tortured doctor eyes carry whole scenes.
Costume
Cairo's 1940s elite dressed to scheme in.
Writing
Gossip as narrative weapon—devastatingly efficient.
Director
Mohammed Karim
Youssef Wahby
Dr. Hamdi
Raqya Ibrahim
Nahed
Omar Al-Hariri
Ahmed - Nahed's brother
Mahmoud El Meligy
Sedky - Nahed's cousin
Olwiya Gamil
Dawlat Hanem - Nahed's mother
Zomorda
Zozou Hanem - Nahed's friend
Abdel Warith Assir
Amin Bey - Nahed's uncle
Fakher Fakher
Samir - Siddiq Hamdi
Souad Ahmed
Thurya Hanem - Hamdy's sister
Nagwa Salem
Nahed's friend
Samiha Ayoub
Nahed's friend
Kitty
Sanaa Gamil
Gamalat
Fauzia Mostafa
Fikriya - Nahed's friend
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1949 Egyptian cinema's 'woman's picture'—melodramas where female audiences watched their social fears play out.
Director Mohammed Karim was Egypt's biggest star-maker; this was Raqya Ibrahim's breakout as the tragic wife.
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