Among the Ruins ( arz, بين الأطلال,

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Bain El Atlal) is a

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

Egyptian romance film directed by the

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film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, p ...

Ezz El-Dine Zulficar and produced by the Egyptian

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Salah Zulfikar. The film is based on a novel written by Yusuf Sibai. The film stars Faten Hamama,

Emad Hamdy Emad Hamdy ( ar, عماد حمدي, ; November 25, 1909 – January 28, 1984) was an Egyptian actor. He was married to the Egyptian actress Shadia between 1953 and 1956. And between 1962 and 1975 he was married to the Egyptian actress Nadia E ...

and Salah Zulfikar. Hamama received an award for her performance and the film was listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films in 1996.

Plot

( Faten Hamama) plays Mona a university student who falls in love with her professor, Mahmoud (

), who is also a gifted writer. Mahmoud proposes to Mona but her mother refuses and Mona marries another man and leave Egypt. Years later after she returns to Egypt, Mona visits a sick Mahmoud in a hospital. Mahmoud expresses his love to Mona as he lies in his deathbed. And Mona’s son Kamal ( Salah Zulfikar) falls in love with Mahmoud’s daughter Mona (Sophie Tharwat).

Cast

* Faten Hamama as Mona *

as Mahmoud * Salah Zulfikar as Kamal *

Fouad El-Mohandes Fouad Zaki Mohamed el-Mohandes ar, فؤاد زكي محمد المهندس; known as Fouad el-Mohandes (or Fuad el-Mohandess; ar, فؤاد المهندس; September 6, 1924 – September 16, 2006) was an Egyptian stage and screen actor, and st ...

as Abdel Moneim *Sophie Tharwat as Mona Mahmoud *Rawhiyya Khaled * Samiha Ayoub

References

External links

* 1959 films 1950s Arabic-language films 1950s romance films Egyptian black-and-white films Egyptian romance films Films directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar {{1950s-romance-film-stub