''The Unjust Angel'' ( arz, الملاك الظالم,
translit. Al-Malak al-Zalem) is a 1954
Egypt
Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Medit ...
ian crime/
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 ...
. It starred
Kamal Al-Shennawi
Mohammed Kamal el-Shennawi ( ar, محمد كمال الشناوي, ; December 26, 1921 – August 22, 2011) was an Egyptian film and television actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor perf ...
,
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 ...
,
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 ...
, and
Mahmoud el-Meliguy
Mahmoud el-Meliguy ( arz, محمود المليجي, ; 22 December 1910 – 6 June 1983) was an Egyptian screenwriter and an actor of film, theater, and television. He started his career playing minor roles, but achieved stardom in the lat ...
.
Plot
Nadia's (Faten Hamama) father is
prison
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ed for a
murder crime
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he didn't commit. His
lawyer fails to get him out of jail, and decides to raise his daughter. Years later, after Nadia has finished her school education, she enters college, where she is assigned to do a research on prisoners and their social effect. In prison, she meets a prisoner who claims to be her father. At first she doesn't believe him, but after checking his documents and ID, she discovers that he's not lying, that he is actually her real father.
She, with the help of her fiancé, played by Kamal Al-Shennawi, seek to free him and prove his innocence. Through their research and after obtaining evidence from old
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as p ...
s, they discover that the murderer was not the father, but instead another man (Mahmoud El-Meliguy), who has conspired against the father. In
court
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, the father is proved to be innocent, and the true murderer is jailed. Nadia then marries her love.
References
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External links
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1954 films
1950s Arabic-language films
1954 crime drama films
Egyptian crime drama films
Egyptian black-and-white films
Films directed by Hassan al-Imam
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