Shayāṭīn al-layl /
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Date
1980
Authors
Rustum, Hind
Muṣṭafá, Niyāzī
Ismāʻīl, Kamāl
Laythī, Jamāl
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al-Qāhirah : Aflām Jamāl al-Laythī lil-Sīnimā wa-al-Vīdiyū
Abstract
Dramatic work about "ʻAṭwah" who was a simple worker in a factory in the era of British camp in Egypt but he was dismissed. He worked as a guard to some prostitute in ʻImād al-Dīn street. He met a woman called "Rawḥīyah" who lost her family by some British soldiers. "ʻAṭwah" knew a princess who convinced him to work as a spy to get information about the Egyptian fighters. ʻAṭwah's brother "Ṣalāḥ" was killed by the British forces. He regretted and decided to work with the Egyptian fighters. At the end he became a hero especially, after he was arrested.
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Sources used: videocassette container./ Partialy viewed./ Originally released as a motion picture in Egypt in [1966?]./ Originally distributed by al-Sharikah al-ʻĀmmah li-Tawzīʻ wa-ʻArḍ al-Aflām al-Sīnimāʼīyah./ Participants: Hind Rustum, Farīd Shawqī, Amīnah Rizq