Film based on the novel of the same name by Naguib Mahfouz and directed by Salah Abouseif.
Egypt, 1961, 130 minutes.
Classics of Arab Cinema' series.
In collaboration with the University of Granada.
Free admission until full capacity is reached.
The death of the patriarch of a Cairo family causes it to fall apart. While Sultan, the older brother, flirts with crime, and Hassanain, the younger (played by Omar Sharif), studies to become a police officer, Nefisa, the sister, prostitutes herself to support her brother's studies. When she is arrested and her brother discovers the situation, tragedy unfolds.
Nominated for the Grand Prix at the 1961 Moscow Film Festival.
Screening in collaboration with the Egyptian Institute of Islamic Studies and the Media Library of the Department of Semitic Studies of the University of Granada.
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