Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.
Acting
Faten Hamama's face does 90% of the storytelling.
Direction
Abu Seif frames temptation like a horror movie.
Writing
Awad the pharmacist: cinema's most insidious nice guy.
Director
Salah Abu Seif
Faten Hamama
Fayza (teacher) - فايزة راشد
Ahmed Mazhar
Mounir (writer) - الكاتب /منير حلمى
Shoukry Sarhan
Ahmed
Zouzou Mady
Mother of Fayza - توحيدة رضوان (ام فايزة)
Ferdoos Mohamed
Tawfiq Al-Deqen
Awad - عوض الصيدلي
Khayria Ahmed
Fayza's sister - خديجة (اخت فايزة الكبيرة)
Wedad Hamdy
Saadiya - سعدية مدرسة
Naima Wasfi
مديرة المعهد
Reyaad ElQasabgy
Abdel-Maksoud - عبدالمقصود من الاعيان
Malak Elgamal
Hosnia - حسنية المدرسة الشاذة
Adly Kasseb
ابو الولد محمد المنتحر
Ehsan Sherif
ناظرة المدرسة
Lotfi El Hakim
عبدالله بيه رضوان (خال البنات)
Abdel Hamid Zaki
إسماعيل
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was part of Egypt's 1950s 'realist' wave, using melodrama to critique social inequality under Nasser.
Faten Hamama was so associated with virtuous roles that audiences reportedly hissed at her 'fall'—despite the film's sympathetic framing.
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