''My Wife's Goblin'' also known as ''My Wife's Ghost'' (, translit. Afreet Meraty) is a

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film directed by

Fatin Abdel Wahab Fatin Abdel Wahab (; 22 November 1913 – 12 May 1972) was an Egyptian film director A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the ...

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Aida and Saleh are married, Aida suffers from emptiness due to her husband Saleh's constant preoccupation with his work or with his friends. She fills her free time by watching movies. However, her constant viewing of movies causes her to impersonate characters. Sometimes she plays the heroine of "Ghada al-Kamelia," other times she plays Raya after watching the movie "Raya and Sakina." Another time she causes a scandal for her husband when she impersonates Irma Lados in the presence of her husband's guests who have come to the house with their manager to congratulate him on his promotion. After all of Saleh's failed attempts to treat his wife, his friend Raef suggested a plan to treat Aida by making her believe that her husband Saleh's real name is Hawash Hankoura and that he has a criminal past and that he has returned to his criminal activities with the help of his friends Shafei and Lamei. The plan succeeds in distracting Aida from watching movies, but they go too far with their plan when Raef suggests they carry out a fake robbery of the bank where Saleh works. However, when Saleh, Shafei and Lamei arrive at the bank with Aida behind them, the police arrest them on charges of robbing the bank and take them to an unknown location. There, it turns out that they are not police officers, but members of a gang headed by Saleh's alleged friend Raef. They robbed the bank and intended to frame Saleh and his friends, but the police came and uncovered the plot and arrested the gang. Aida returned to her normal state, and Saleh devoted himself to taking care of his wife and home again.

Cast

Salah Zulfikar Salah El-Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar (, ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a Egyptian National Police, police officer, before becoming an actor in 1956. He is regarded as one o ...

as Saleh *

Shadia Fatma Ahmad Kamal Shaker (; 8 February 193128 November 2017), better known by her stage name Shadia (, ''Shādya''), was an Egyptian actress and singer. She was famous for her roles in light comedies and Drama (film and television), drama in th ...

as Aida *

Emad Hamdy Emad Hamdy (, ; November 25, 1909 – January 28, 1984) also known as Imad Hamdi, was an Egyptians, Egyptian actor. He was married to the Egyptian actress Shadia between 1953 and 1956. And between 1962 and 1975 he was married to the Egyptian a ...

as Raef *

Adel Emam Adel Mohammed Emam (; born on 17 May 1940), is an Egyptians, Egyptian Cinema of Egypt, film, Television in Egypt, television, and Egyptian Theatre, stage actor, known for his extensive career with over 150 artistic works, including films, plays, a ...

as Shafai * Hassan Hussein as Lamei * Amal Zayed as Aida's mother * Hassan Mustafa as Hefzy, Saleh's manager at the bank * Hala Fakher as Inayat, Saleh's sister * Al-Toukhi Tawfiq as the gang member * Hussein Ismail as Salama Khadim Raef * Nabila Al-Sayed as Anisa * Ibrahim Saafan as Irma Laddus' customer * Salama Elias as the gang member * Abbas Rahmi as bank manager * Sanaa Maher as the bank manager's wife * Soheir Reda as Hefzy's wife * Syed Abdullah as Dr. Sami

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*
My Wife's Goblin on elCinema
* “Raw Narrative Walks on Two Feet.” ''Like a Summer Never to Be Repeated'', by Mohamed Berrada and Christina Phillips, American University in Cairo Press, Cairo; New York, 2009, pp. 139–154. ''JSTOR'', www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt15m7hg7.13. Accessed 7 Sept. 2021. 1960s Arabic-language films 1968 films 1968 romantic comedy films Egyptian romantic comedy films Films directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab Egyptian black-and-white films 1960s Egyptian films {{romantic-comedy-film-stub

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