''I Want a Solution'' ( ar, أريد حلاً, translit.Oridu hallan) is a 1975 Egyptian

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directed by Said Marzouk and produced by

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 ...

. The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the

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at the

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, but was not accepted as a nominee. The film criticized the laws governing

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and

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in Egypt. The film is listed in Top 100 Egyptian films list and it earned the 1975

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's best producer award for Salah Zulfikar. The script was written by Said Marzouk and Faten Hamama. ''I Want a Solution'' is inspired by a true story and it is Marzouk's third feature film.

Plot

The film unveils the injustice of Egypt's personal status laws against women. Doria an Egyptian women is seeking to divorce her husband Methat a former diplomat with aristocratic background. In flashbacks, we learn that Methat verbally and physically abuses his wife and cheats on her. Doria requested divorce, but according to the Egyptian laws, a woman can only ask for divorce in specific cases.

Cast

Primary cast

Faten Hamama Faten Ahmed Hamama ( ar, فاتن حمامه ; 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She was the first wife of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was o ...

: Doria *

Rushdy Abaza Rushdy Saiid El Bughdady Abaza ( arz, رشدي سعيد البوغدادي أباظة) (3 August 1926 – 27 July 1980) was an Egyptian film and television actor. He was considered one of the most charming actors in the Egyptian film industry. He ...

: Medhat *

Amina Rizk Amina Rizk ( ar, أمينة رزق; April 15, 1910 – August 24, 2003) was a classic Egyptian actress who appeared in around 208 artworks including more than 70 movies between 1928 and 1996. She was calm in her later years, but described as a ...

: Hayat * Ragaa Hussein: Actress *

Laila Taher Laila Taher ( ar, ليلي طاهر) born Sherouette Moustafa Ibrahim ( ar, شيرويت مصطفي إبراهيم) is an Egyptian film, stage, television actress and presenter who is mostly known for her successful collaborations with Salah Zulf ...

: Actress * Yulius Zagoni: Krad * Muhammad Al-Sabaa: (Ahmed Al-Adawy - Doria’s lawyer) * Ahmed Tawfik: (Hassan Madkour - Medhat's lawyer) * Ragaa Hussein: (Sunni) *

Nadia Arslan Nadia Arslan (Arabic: نادية أرسلان), also romanised as Nadia Arsalan, was a Lebanese actress who came to prominence in Egyptian films of the 1970s. Born Hind Arslan (Arabic: هند أرسلان) to a Druze family of Syrian and Lebanes ...

: (The Mistress) * Ali Al-Sharif: (Abu Al-Wafa - Azhari Sharia lawyer) * Kamal Zulfikar: Hayat's husband * Shawky Baraka: (judge) * Ibrahim Saafan: (Badawi - Ardahhalji in court) * Sayed Zayan: (Darwish) * Waheed Seif: (Abbas) * Osama Abbas: (Pharmacist) * Ibrahim Qadri: (witness in court) * Sherif Lotfy: (Raouf Azmy)

Supporting cast

Hesham Selim Hesham Selim ( ar, هشام سليم; 27 January 1958 – 22 September 2022) was an Egyptian film and television actor. He’s the son of Saleh Selim. He acted in many movies and television series since his childhood. Career Selim's first acti ...

* Suhair Sami * Fathia Shaheen * Naima Al Sagheer * Laila Fahmy * Kawthar Shafik * Abdul Aleem Khattab * Hussein Qandil * Sophie Takla * Ali Ezz El Din * Raafat Fahim * Mahmoud Kamel * Radwan Hafez * Marwan Hammad

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