''Tareeq al-Amal'' ( ar, طريق الأمل, The Road of Hope) is a 1957

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ian romance/

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directed by the Egyptian

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Ezz El-Dine Zulficar."Remembering Ahmed Mazhar: The knight of Egyptian cinema"
''Ahram Online'', Ashraf Gharib, Sunday 8 Oct 2017 It starred

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 ...

Shukry Sarhan Mohamed Shoukry El Husseiny Sarhan (1925–1997, ar, محمد شُكري الحسيني سرحان, Muḥammad Shukrī al-Ḥusaynī Sirḥān), better known as Shoukry Sarhan ( ar, شُكري سرحان, Shukrī Sirḥān), was an Egyptian ...

, and Faten Hamama.

Plot

Saneya ( Faten Hamama) is a young woman whose mother suffers from a malicious

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that forbids her from working. This leaves her and her mother with no money, which forces her to work as a

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. One day she meets a Hussein (

) who sympathizes with her situation and decides to save her from this unpleasant work. He falls in love with her and decides to marry her, but his mother ( Ulweya Gameel) does not allow him because of who she is. Saneya returns to working as a prostitute. One day, she saves her lover's sister ( Zahret El-Ula) which convinces his mother who accepts her as her son's wife.

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* * * 1957 films 1950s Arabic-language films 1957 romantic drama films Egyptian romantic drama films Films directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar {{romantic-drama-film-stub