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Kamal El Sheikh Kamal El Sheikh ( ar, كمال الشيخ; 2 February 1919 – 2 January 2004) was an Egyptian film director. He directed 28 films between 1952 and 1987, with eight of them in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. Selected filmography * '' Mala ...

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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 ...

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Plot

The events occur in early 1952 where secret patriotic organizations are rising all over the country. One of these organizations is headed by ''Amin Akef'' with the aim of overthrowing the King and his associates including ''Azmi Pasha'' the head of the political police. ''Amin'' is a pilot who has two best friends, ''Essam'' and Samir. ''Samir'' is married to ''Madiha'' who is the daughter of ''Azmi Pasha''. She imagines that she can live outside of her father's control, so she asks her husband to live alone outside the palace walls, but ''Azmi Pasha'' refuses. After the Cairo fire was extinguished in January 1952. ''Azmi Pasha'' reassures that the situation has been controlled and that there is no danger. Then a quarrel occurs between ''Madiha'' and ''Samir'' because he could not persuade the father to leave the palace. ''Madiha'' gets bored as a result of her husband's travel on one of his trips. She calls anonymously one of ''Samir’s'' friends by phone. He is ''Essam'', who she knows has many women's adventures, and at first she imagines that it is a kind of change to the boredom and monotony of her life. She goes to him in his apartment, ''Essam'' leaves her to buy some household supplies, but a car hits him, and he is taken to the hospital, and he searches for one of his friends to save the woman inside his apartment, ''Amin'' was busy and unfortunately, only ''Samir'' was available to help, who arrived at the hospital and ''Essam'' tells him what happened and asks him to release this woman, without knowing that she is his wife, at home ''Samir'' is stunned by finding his wife in his best friend’s apartment, he divorces her after he attacks her in front of her father, who plots an accident to kill ''Samir''. ''Amin'' and ''Essam'' feel the shock of their friend’s assassination. At a time when they were mourning their best friend, ''Azmi Pasha'' begins to try to pressure ''Essam'' to marry his daughter ''Madiha'' to try to avoid the scandal. ''Amin'' finds it a great opportunity to penetrate ''Azmi Pasha’s'' palace and indeed, ''Essam'' marries ''Madiha'' and lives in the palace. From the Pasha's safe. ''Essam'' delivers ''Azmi Pasha’s'' secrets to the patriotic organization. ''Amin'' prints it in the form of ''Azmi Pasha's'' mémoire and distributed it everywhere even in the Saray, and the Saray demands that he submit his resignation. ''Azmi Pasha'' tries to hit the elements opposed to him through ''Essam'' and ''Amin'', but he does not succeed. ''Azmi Pasha'' is arrested, and during the farewell, ''Essam'' tells ''Madiha'' how much he loves her, but she asks that they be separated forever. He leaves with ''Amin'' and organize their next meeting in their patriotic organization.

Primary cast

: Madiha *

: Amin Akef *

: Essam *

: Azmi Pasha * Ibrahim Khan: Samir * Mohamed El-Dafrawi: Farid Makram * Salah Nazmi: Police officer * Kamal Yassin: Ashraf El-Buhairi * Nadia Saif Al-Nasr: Sharifa Hanim * Helmy Helali: Member of the organization * Hassan Atlé: Worker in the palace * Mimi Gamal: Essam’s friend * Zizi Mustafa: Essam’s friend * Rabab: Amin’s friend * Gazebeya Fouad * Adawy Ghaith

References

External links

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Sunset and Sunrise on elCinema
1970 films 1970s Arabic-language films Egyptian political films Egyptian black-and-white films Films shot in Egypt 1970s political films {{Egypt-film-stub