A famous singer, who is known for being a womanizer, meets his neighbor who is enamored with him and sleeps with her. When she gives birth, she has to leave her past behind and forget about her flippant ex-lover to look after her son.
Acting
Lobna Abdel Aziz: devastating restraint, luminous suffering.
Score
Farid Al-Atrash's own music weaponized against him.
Costume
Cairo glamour decaying into respectable poverty.
Director
Salah Abu Seif
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This Egyptian adaptation relocated Stefan Zweig's Vienna to 1960s Cairo, swapping aristocratic decay for post-colonial Arab glamour and stricter sexual hypocrisy.
Real-life musical superstar Farid Al-Atrash essentially played himself — the meta-layer of a famous singer portraying a hollow womanizer adds delicious irony.
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