I'm Not Lying But I'm Beautifying, also known as The Made Up Truth (

Egyptian Arabic Egyptian Arabic, locally known as Colloquial Egyptian ( ar, العامية المصرية, ), or simply Masri (also Masry) (), is the most widely spoken vernacular Arabic dialect in Egypt. It is part of the Afro-Asiatic language family, and o ...

: أنا لا أكذب ولكني أتجمل

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: ''Die geschminkte wahrheit''

translit Informal or ''ad hoc'' romanizations of Cyrillic have been in use since the early days of electronic communications, starting from early e-mail and bulletin board systems.Egyptian film The cinema of Egypt refers to the flourishing film industry based in Cairo, sometimes also referred to as Hollywood on the Nile. Since 1976, the capital has held the annual Cairo International Film Festival, which has been accredited by the Intern ...

written by

Ihsan Abdel Quddous Ihsan Abdel Quddous ( arz, إحسان عبد القدوس ', ) (1 January 1919 – 12 January 1990) was an Egyptian writer, novelist, and journalist and editor in Egypt's '' Al Akhbar'' and ''Al-Ahram'' newspapers. He wrote many novels that ...

and directed by Ibrahim El-Shaqanqeeri. The film stars

Salah Zulfikar Salah El Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar ( ar, صلاح ذو الفقار; ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a police officer in the Egyptian National Police, before becoming an ac ...

, Ahmed Zaki and

Athar El-Hakim Athar El-Hakim (born 24 August 1957) is an Egyptian actress. Biography El-Hakim attended Ain Shams University and earned a degree in English. She subsequently worked in public relations at a hotel. El-Hakim also modelled and worked as radio ann ...

Plot

Rafik Hamdy is a famous writer, who has one daughter, Khairya, a college student. Her colleague Ibrahim, the diligent student, falls in love with her and she also exchanges love, although the rich student Hani admires her, Ibrahim tries to hide the truth of his social level for fear that Khairiya will move away from him, to claim that he is from a wealthy family. But eventually, Rafik knows the truth and confronts Ibrahim and now Khairia must choose.

Main cast

as Rafik Hamdy * Ahmed Zaki as Ibrahim *

as Khairia *

Zahrat El-Ola Zahrat El-Ola (10 June 1934 – 18 December 2013) was an Egyptian actress, and was the second wife of Salah Zulfikar. She was famous for her roles in light comedies and drama in the 1950s and 1960s. She is one of the iconic actresses in Egypt. E ...

as Nadia * Nahed Samir as Mobrouka * Farouk Youssef as Hani * Maha Abu Ouf as Maisa * Ahmed El Gezery as Saleh * Mohamed Shawky as Madbouly * Fatheya Chahine as Hani’s mother * Ahmed Khamis

References

External links

* 1981 films 1980s Arabic-language films 20th-century Egyptian films Egyptian romantic drama films Films shot in Egypt {{Egypt-film-stub