Umm Kulthum's voice vs. patriarchal greed in 1945 Egypt's most epic musical romance.
The events of the film revolve in the era of the Umayyad dynasty, around the shepherd (Salama), who has a charming voice and has a love relationship with (Abdul Rahman), but her love is hindered by (Ibn Suhail’s) greed for her. She runs away from him out of fear for herself and her love, and (Abdul Rahman) begins his search journey. about her .
Acting
Umm Kulthum's screen presence—she doesn't act, she *commands*.
Score
Her actual voice, woven through the plot like a weapon and a prayer.
Direction
Togo Mizrahi blends Egyptian folklore with Hollywood sweep.
Director
Togo Mizrahi
Umm Kulthum
سلامة
Yehia Chahine
عبد الرحمن القس
Abdel Warith Assir
ابو الوفا
Fouad Shafiq
ابن سهيل
Stephan Rosti
الشاعر عمر بن ابي ربيعة
Zouzou Nabil
شوق رفيقة سلامة
Fakher Fakher
الراعي حكيم
Reyaad ElQasabgy
عبد ابن سهيل
Esther Shattah
زوجة ابو الوفا
Abdel Qader AlMeseri
Mohamed Kamel
مرجان الحارس
Mahmoud Reda
Souad Zaki
Hassan Saleh
Lotfi El Hakim
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Umm Kulthum's second film and cemented her as Egypt's voice of the nation—literally, her songs became political anthems.
Director Togo Mizrahi, an Italian-Egyptian Jew, fled Egypt in 1952; this golden age of Egyptian cinema he helped build was later erased from official histories.
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