Yehia Chahine

Yehia Chahine

Born: September 28, 2017
Died: March 18, 1994
in Giza, Egypt
Yehia Chahine was born in Imbaba, Giza. His father's name was Yehia Chahine too. He received a diploma in performing arts and started acting in theatre. His first performance was in the play Murtafat w Darag (Heights and Stairs). In 1935, he acted in his first film.

He acted in numerous films, but his most notable role is that of Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, a Cairene patriarch, in the Cairo Trilogy films. The three films, Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk, which is based on the Palace Walk novel) in 1964, Qasr al-Shawq (Palace of Desire) in 1967, and Al-Sukkariya (Sugar Street) in 1973, were set in Cairo and followed the family of Abd al-Jawwad across three generations, from World War I to the overthrow of King Farouk in 1952. They were well received and successful in Egypt and the Arab world.

Additionally, he has acted in many other successful films. He starred in film director Youssef Chahine's Ibn al-Nile (Son of the Nile) along with Faten Hamama in 1951. He played a leading role in the 1954 film Gaalouni Mujriman (I Have Been Made a Murderer), which was based on a novel by Naguib Mahfouz. In 1957, he starred in La Anam (Sleepless), a film that was chosen as one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions. His last film role was in 1988, in the film Kul Hatha al-Hub (All This Love).

Chahine received several awards for his film roles. In 1993, he received the Sciences and Arts prize. He died at the age of 76, on 18 March 1994

Movies for Yehia Chahine...

Bnt albasha alwazir
Title: Bnt albasha alwazir
Released: April 22, 1991
Type: Movie
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Title: شارع المواردي
Character: محمد المواردي
Released: March 27, 1990
Type: TV
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All That Love
Title: All That Love
Character: ناصف الليثي
Released: December 9, 1988
Type: Movie
Nassif al-Leithi is a very loyal merchant for business colleague Hussein Zahran. Hussein Zahran was surprised by the betrayal of his wife and killed her. Nassif al-Leithi promises that his son Hussein will take care of his son Kamal while he is in prison. He dies in prison. Kamal grows up and works in the company of his father's friend Nasif. One of his sons, but the good treatment changed abruptly when Nasif noticed that his young daughter Wafa was fully impressed, refusing to share their marriage
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Bloody Destinies
Title: Bloody Destinies
Character: Hilmi Pasha
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
As Major General Helmy and his son Sa'ad take part in the first Palestine War, his wife Horeya cheats on him with Kamal. When Helmy returns and finds out, he dies from the shock and his daughter Alia vows revenge on her mother.
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Alexandria… Why?
Title: Alexandria… Why?
Character: British Ambassador
Released: August 23, 1979
Type: Movie
Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
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Al-Shakk ya Habibi
Title: Al-Shakk ya Habibi
Character: Abdelrahman
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Dr. Rabab is the wife of businessman Abdul Rahim, their routine life is disturbed by the nosy Bahiga, Abdul Rahim's sister, who interferes in everything. When Rabab becomes pregnant after several years of infertility,Bahiga drives her brother to doubt if he's the father.
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Title: The Days
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: TV
The series chronicles the life of Taha Hussein, The Dean of Arabic Literature, as he leaves the countryside to get a better education, and then leaves Egypt to France where he meets Susan whom he marries later.
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The Estranged Brothers
Title: The Estranged Brothers
Character: El-Armany
Released: October 14, 1974
Type: Movie
The relationship between a father and his four children is strained when he keeps spending his money on his pleasures. His son, Tawfik, revolts against his father after he learns of his relationship with the prostitute Lula, until he falls for her.
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Al Sokkareya
Title: Al Sokkareya
Character: Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad
Released: January 14, 1973
Type: Movie
The film revolves around the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad through his second and third generations, which consists of Yassin and Kamal the younger son, and the sons of Aisha / Khadija, in the age of young people and political and social transformations and their impact on their maturity and life paths.
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The Barrier
Title: The Barrier
Character: Salah
Released: August 7, 1972
Type: Movie
The great businessman Salah is sponsored by his brother Ezzat, who chooses the Faculty of Medicine despite his literary leanings. Salah refuses to marry her mistress Nadia.Seeking to make Ezzat fall in love with her and succeed in it
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The Lights
Title: The Lights
Character: مراد
Released: January 10, 1972
Type: Movie
A village girl, Hanaa, gets fascinated by the colorful world of the cinema as a director arrives in the village to film his movie. As Hanaa meets Tamatem, the dressmaker of actress Sally, she gets a job as Sally's maid and crosses paths with Mourad who pushes her to work at cabarets.
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Dawn of Islam
Title: Dawn of Islam
Released: February 1, 1971
Type: Movie
This is the story of young Hassem, the son of a powerful sheik, set at the beginning of Hegira. When the youngster's uncle is murdered, Hassem decides to go to Mecca with a view to finding the culprit and punishing him. But what he discovers there is not the murderer but the prophet Muhammad. Touched by grace, Hassem converts to the new religion and comes back to his village to propagate the new faith. Which is not to his father's liking, since the Muslim religion is opposed to feudal rights and privileges. The infuriated sheik curses his son and starts persecuting the new converts.
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أشياء لا تشترى
Title: أشياء لا تشترى
Released: March 24, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Land
Title: The Land
Character: Sheikh Hassouna
Released: January 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Set in 1933, the mayor informs the peasants that the share of irrigation of their land will be split equally between them and feudal lord Mahmoud Bey. The peasants send Mohamed Effendi to submit a petition to the government. Mahmoud Bey then proposes a project that would require taking part of the peasants' lands.
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A Bit of Torment
Title: A Bit of Torment
Character: Painter Ahmed Khaled
Released: September 22, 1969
Type: Movie
When her stepfather tries to rape her, Amal kills him and flees. She finds refuge in the house of the fine artist Ahmed Khaled who falls for her, but his protégé, the sculptor Sherif, also falls for her and competes with Ahmed to win her favor.
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The People Inside
Title: The People Inside
Character: رفاعي
Released: April 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Amal, who decided to move away from Cairo in an isolated isolation of Saloum in an attempt to escape the anniversary of her fiancé's death in a car accident, combines the playboy teacher Hani who was transferred to Salloum as punishment for his disrespect and misconduct. Their meeting on the Salloum beach, while each meets a different model of human beings in the workplace, Hani meets Saidi Bakri fleeing revenge, and meet the hope of doctor Tariq, who tries to harass them and exploit their unity, will love develop and grow amid this intertwined conditions?
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Bit of Fear
Title: Bit of Fear
Character: Al Shaikh Ibrahim
Released: February 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on Tharwat Abaza's short story, 'Shey min al Khawf' takes place in a rural Egyptian village. Atris' reign of terror on the villagers is put to the test when a public act of defiance is carried out by Fu'ada, the object of his affection.
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Rawaat El Hob
Title: Rawaat El Hob
Character: Mahmoud Salem
Released: July 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A young girl marries the author whom she admires, but later discovers that he's not who he appears to be. She runs away and meets a handsome young man and they decide to get married.
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Mansion of Longing
Title: Mansion of Longing
Character: Mr. Ahmed Abdel-Gawad
Released: December 31, 1966
Type: Movie
10 years after Fahmy died, Ahmed Abdel Gawad returned to his normal life. He falls for Zanouba who is in love with his son Yassin. As Zanouba marries Yassin, Kamal's idealism is compromised when Aida abandons him for a wealthy guy.
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رجل وامرأتان
Title: رجل وامرأتان
Released: April 12, 1966
Type: Movie
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Tofahet Adam
Title: Tofahet Adam
Released: April 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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The Confession
Title: The Confession
Character: Ibrahim
Released: December 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Ahmed and Nawal are childhood sweethearts. When Ahmed suddenly moves to Cairo and loses touch with Nawal, she marries his older brother Ibrahim. During a visit, Nawal questions Ahmed about his abandonment of her, only for him to reveal a shocking truth about her mother.
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Son of Cleopatra
Title: Son of Cleopatra
Character: Safar
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses this opportunity to win her over to his side before releasing her to her father.
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The Teenagers
Title: The Teenagers
Character: Shams
Released: April 20, 1964
Type: Movie
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Between Two Mansions
Title: Between Two Mansions
Character: Ahmed Abdel Gawad
Released: March 2, 1964
Type: Movie
The life paths of the family of Mr. Ahmed Abdel Gawad during the period of the British occupation, and before the outbreak of the 1919 revolution, starting with the family's patriarch who lives a double life, his son Fahmy who joins a secret political organization, and the older son Yassin who follows his father's footsteps in pursuing women.
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The Man I Love
Title: The Man I Love
Released: February 8, 1962
Type: Movie
Sabreen is an orphan girl who grow up in the orphanage, by the time she is an adult she been assigned to work in one the big mansions in the countryside, the owner of the mansion hard hearted man called Murad but she gain his trust by time although she is surprised to find out that the mansion is full of sorrow and mystery, by time she finds out that there is a crazy woman who if confined to her room in the attic and she Murad's wife.
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رجل بلا قلب
Title: رجل بلا قلب
Character: جلال
Released: October 17, 1960
Type: Movie
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Smra sayna
Title: Smra sayna
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
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The Female Boss
Title: The Female Boss
Character: Abbas
Released: December 8, 1958
Type: Movie
Based on play Othello of William Shakespear. Hafez try to convice his friend that his wife has been unfaithful.
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This is Love
Title: This is Love
Character: Hussein
Released: October 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Hussein is a conservative engineer who finds a perfect wife in Sherifa whom he thinks has never been in love. Ten days into their marriage, he learns that she had a past affair, and he merely regards her as a fallen woman.
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Alhabu alsaamat
Title: Alhabu alsaamat
Released: October 13, 1958
Type: Movie
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Kahraman
Title: Kahraman
Released: March 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Hamed is a student from Damanhour who joins the University of Alexandria. He goes with his three colleagues to spend an evening in one of the modest nightclubs, and Kahraman, the dancer, draws his attention.
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الملاك الصغير
Title: الملاك الصغير
Released: December 2, 1957
Type: Movie
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Sleepless
Title: Sleepless
Character: Ahmed Lutfy
Released: October 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Spoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries to break them apart, spreading lies about her new mother-in-law and getting involved with a man twice her age.
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Lovers of the Night
Title: Lovers of the Night
Released: October 3, 1957
Type: Movie
After his wife cheats on him with his friend, a husband seeks solace in a nightclub where a dancer and an alcoholic friend try to console him. When the alcoholic friend kills his wife for money, he leaves his daughter under the care of the husband and the dancer.
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Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Title: Nisaa Fi Hayaty
Character: Ahmed Awad
Released: January 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, he meets with Tuha, a girl he saw growing up in his neighborhood and attached to it, and he dreamed of it, but she does not exchange love, and then he loses his wealth, as a fire breaks out in the workshop and he comes over it, and then Ahmed meets Sana in the hospital to which Ahmed is taken after he was injured in the fire, and at the same time Ahmed loves tohave violently, and with the same violence Nana protects him, and Sana loves him.
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الغريب
Title: الغريب
Released: December 10, 1956
Type: Movie
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The Little Doll
Title: The Little Doll
Released: July 13, 1956
Type: Movie
The Little Doll
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Farewell at dawn
Title: Farewell at dawn
Released: July 12, 1956
Type: Movie
Ahmad is an air-force fighter who lives with his rich father who wants him to marry partner's daughter; but he falls in love with Zainab
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The Stranger
Title: The Stranger
Released: February 26, 1956
Type: Movie
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Where Did My Life Go?
Title: Where Did My Life Go?
Character: Doctor Khaled
Released: January 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Ayn Omry is a movie about a teenage girl who decides to get married to an old rich man to break free from her controlling mother and to save the family name after loosing their fortune. But she discovers that her husband is a sick jealous man he locked her with 2 old weird sisters in a distant farmhouse After many years of suffering with her sick husband Aleya decides to leave him.
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For Love
Title: For Love
Released: October 3, 1955
Type: Movie
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Pity My Tears
Title: Pity My Tears
Character: Mamdouh Salem
Released: October 31, 1954
Type: Movie
When Amal's father falls on hard times, he sells his land to his neighbor, Mamdouh, who falls in love with Amal. But Amal is in a relationship with Mourad who starts avoiding her after he learns of her father's crisis, prompting Mamdouh to confess his love for Amal and ask for her hand in marriage.
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They Made Me a Criminal
Title: They Made Me a Criminal
Character: Sheikh Hassan
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Sultan thought that his father's death will soften his uncle's heart and he will take good care of him. Contrary to Sultan's expectations, the uncle sent him to an orphanage. When he leaves the orphanage, Sultan fails to find an honest job, and he vows revenge.
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قرية العشاق
Title: قرية العشاق
Released: April 13, 1954
Type: Movie
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Life is Love
Title: Life is Love
Character: Adel
Released: April 5, 1954
Type: Movie
Layla is a volunteer nurse at the red crescent helping the injured in Palestinian war. She falls in love with officer Adel , and during a raid he gets seriously injured and decides to disappear from her life. She gets married to her colleague and later discovers that Adel is in need of a critical surgery.
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The black knight
Title: The black knight
Character: Essam
Released: March 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The daughter of two Bedouins who married against the will of the two warring tribes, and were killed by their respective families. The girl found herself in danger, so she took refuge in the city and worked in the circus. After she learns her origin, she returns to her tribe, but the tribe rejects her. She falls in love with the son of the tribe’s sheikh. There is a raid on the tribe’s members. The girl tries to participate and wears the clothes of a knight.
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Ana El-Hobu
Title: Ana El-Hobu
Released: February 15, 1954
Type: Movie
The engineer Nagy returns from his travels abroad when he meets Olfat whom he falls in love with and shares his feelings towards her with her. However, she is suddenly not to be found which leads him to search for her everywhere.
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Marret El-ayam
Title: Marret El-ayam
Released: January 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Inside the university, a student admires her ideal professor, without the professor realizing it. The professor proposes to the family and proposes to the sister, which shocks the student. She decides to conceal her feelings and continue studying. The professor marries the sister, and days pass without the flame of love being extinguished. A husband discovers... The sister realizes the student's feelings for him, and he begins to reciprocate the same feelings due to her intense interest in him, and the two almost drift into a stream full of mistakes.
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Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
Title: Belal Moa'zen Al-Rasool
Character: بلال بن رباح
Released: June 9, 1953
Type: Movie
In a historical story, the film narrates the life story of Bilal bin Rabah, the great muezzin who suffered a difficult life and great torment until the emergence of Islam and the most famous of his Islam at the hands of the Prophet, may God bless him and grant him peace.
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Moamara
Title: Moamara
Released: April 20, 1953
Type: Movie
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سلوا قلبي
Title: سلوا قلبي
Released: October 7, 1952
Type: Movie
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The Lady on the Train
Title: The Lady on the Train
Character: Farid
Released: August 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Fikria is a singer who's married to Farid ,the gambling addict. When she's traveling by train, she gets in an accident and a peasant treats her. After she returns home,her husband asks her to stay hidden to get the insurance money to pay for his gambling debts.
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Zeinab
Title: Zeinab
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Mohammed Karim directed adaptation of the Youssef Wahby novel.
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Son of the Nile
Title: Son of the Nile
Character: Hemaida's brother
Released: January 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Hemaidah is a Farmer who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah, a woman in the same village.
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Elham
Title: Elham
Released: April 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Elham is an honest girl, but when her father loses all his wealth, she's forced to deviate from the right path after losing her virginity, she becomes a model to a sculptor and then a night girl in a nightclub, until an affectionate man intervenes and takes her hand to a more compassionate horizon.
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Solomon's Ring
Title: Solomon's Ring
Character: Mahmoud
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Musical from the Egyptian Golden Age of cinema.
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El taisha
Title: El taisha
Released: November 18, 1946
Type: Movie
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Gharam El Sheyukh
Title: Gharam El Sheyukh
Released: April 13, 1946
Type: Movie
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El mazaher
Title: El mazaher
Released: October 13, 1945
Type: Movie
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Salamah
Title: Salamah
Character: Abdul Rahman Al-Qass
Released: April 9, 1945
Type: Movie
The events of the film revolve in the era of the Umayyad dynasty, around the shepherd (Salama), who has a charming voice and has a love relationship with (Abdul Rahman), but her love is hindered by (Ibn Suhail’s) greed for her. She runs away from him out of fear for herself and her love, and (Abdul Rahman) begins his search journey. about her .
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Hababa
Title: Hababa
Released: November 13, 1944
Type: Movie
Prince Zayed is in love with one of his maids, who is his son's nanny, and his entourage succeeds in keeping her away from him. The prince becomes Khalifa, and life was not good without her, so he searches for her until he can find her. The loyal slave girl takes poison so as not to cause her master any trouble.
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Bint Al-Sheikh
Title: Bint Al-Sheikh
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
In a social dramatic context, a young man decides to propose to the girl he loves from the other tribe, but her brother stands in the way of consummating the marriage, as he refuses because of the previous bad past between the two tribes.
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If I Was Rich
Title: If I Was Rich
Character: Kamal Khatib Wahiba
Released: November 26, 1942
Type: Movie
A poor man suddenly gets rich when he receives big inheritance.
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almutahama
Title: almutahama
Released: May 18, 1942
Type: Movie
The prosecutor (Kamel) succeeds in convicting (Othman Borai), the drug dealer, and (Borai)’s wife decides to take revenge on the prosecutor, causing a quarrel between him and his wife (Samiha). Kamel believes that his wife is cheating on him, so he divorces her and expels her from the house. He discovers the truth and tries to search for her. He learns that she jumped into the Nile, so he travels with his son outside the country.
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Al-Ans station
Title: Al-Ans station
Released: May 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A girl loves singing and is looking forward to meeting a famous singer to fulfill her dream. At the same time, the owner of a gas station loves composing and seeks to fulfill his dream of meeting the same singer. The three meet at the gas station and many paradoxes occur between them.