''Immortal Song'' ( ar, لحن الخلود, ''Lahn al-Kholood'' ) is a 1952 Egyptian

romance Romance (from Vulgar Latin , "in the Roman language", i.e., "Latin") may refer to: Common meanings * Romance (love), emotional attraction towards another person and the courtship behaviors undertaken to express the feelings * Romance languages, ...

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. Drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-g ...

directed by

Henry Barakat Henry Antoun Barakat ( ar, هنري أنطون بركات, 11 June 1914, Cairo – 27 May 1997, Cairo) was a well known Egyptian film director. He was born in Shubra to a Melkite Greek Catholic father of Syro-Lebanese descent, and a Syro-Leb ...

. It stars

Farid Al Atrache Farid al-Atrash ( ar, فريد الأطرش; October 19, 1916 – December 26, 1974), also written Farid El-Atrache, was a Syrian-Egyptian composer, singer, virtuoso oud player, and actor. Having immigrated to Egypt at the age of only nine ...

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 ...

, Majda, Madiha Yousri, and

Seraj Munir Seraj Munir (1901–1957) was an Egyptian film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1930 and 1957. Selected filmography * '' The Leech'' (1956) * '' Al-Malak al-Zalem'' (1954) * '' Lahn al-Kholood'' (1952) * ''Amina'' (1951) * ''Kursi al-I`t ...

Plot

Waheed (Farid Al Atrache), a famous

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, meets Wafa' (Faten Hamama), a family member and the daughter of a close friend and relative of his. Wafa' has secretly had a crush on him for years and tries unsuccessfully to show her affection and hint that to Waheed. He thinks her love is nothing more than an expected family member's fondness. Wafa's father dies and Waheed offers her and her sister to move into his house and live with him and promises to take care of them. Wafa' finds herself living under the same roof with the man she loves, except that Waheed is going to

marry Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between t ...

a woman named Siham (Madiah Yousri). Time passes and Wafa' tries hardly to express her love to Waheed. She treats him well and pampers him and he eventually falls in love with her.

Cast

as Wahid *

as Wafa' *Magda as Sana *

as Abdel Halim * Salah Nazmi as Rashad *

Madiha Yousri Madiha Yousri ( ar, مديحة يسري; née Hannouma Habib Khalil Ali ( ar, هنومة حبيب خليل); 3 December 1921 – 29 May 2018) was an Egyptian film and television actress. She starred in dozens of classic Egyptian films over th ...

as Siham

References

Film summary
Faten Hamama's official site. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.
Film summary
''Adab wa Fan''. Retrieved on January 11, 2007.

External links

* 1952 films 1950s Arabic-language films 1950s mystery drama films 1952 romantic drama films Egyptian romantic drama films Egyptian black-and-white films Egyptian mystery drama films {{Egypt-film-stub

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