Film based on the novel of the same name by Taha Hussein and directed by Henry Barakat.
Egypt, 1959, 109 minutes.
Classics of Arab Cinema' series.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
Classic melodrama starring Faten Hamama (the grande dame of Egyptian cinema) in which the dilemma between revenge and love is presented. Amnah, a young woman seeking to avenge her sister who was murdered by her own uncle in an honour killing, begins working for the engineer who caused the girl's dishonour. When she manages to get him to fall in love with her, the dilemma is revealed.
Nominated for the Golden Bear at the 1960 Berlin Film Festival.
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