Your best friend whispers your wife is cheating. Do you believe him or her?
The husband lives happily with his small family, but the happiness does not last, as jealousy creeps into the heart of one of his friends, so he tells the husband that his wife is cheating on him. His life changes, and he resorts to alcohol, and searches for evidence to confirm his wife’s betrayal of him, so he finds emotional messages that do not belong to the wife, but were sent to the children’s nanny. The husband imagines that his wife is cheating on him, so he divorces her, and events follow.
Acting
Mahmoud El Meligy's descent into obsession
Direction
Morsi's elegant Cairo social realism
Director
Ahmed Kamel Morsi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
1954 Egyptian cinema often explored modernity's threat to traditional family structures through melodrama.
The nanny character embodies class anxiety—her literacy and secret correspondence frightens the bourgeois husband more than actual infidelity.
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