Nadia Lotfi

Nadia Lotfi

Born: January 3, 1937
Died: February 4, 2020
in Cairo, Egypt
Nadia Lutfi or Nadia Loutfi was an Egyptian actress. During the apex of her career, she was one of the most popular actresses of Egyptian cinema's golden age. She was born in 1937 in Cairo to an Egyptian father and a Polish mother. Her father was an accountant. Acting started as a hobby, when she was 10 years old she participated in a play at her school and did very well.

Her first roles in Egyptian cinema were in Soultan (1958) and Cairo Station (1958), both in the same year. The latter brought filmmaker Youssef Chahine to international attention and acclaim when it was a competitor at the Berlin Film Festival. Her career progressed and she appeared in El saman wel karif (1967) (based on the book by Nobel-winning author Najeeb Mahfouz). She closed out the 1960s in Abi foq al-Shagara (1969) opposite Abdel Halim Hafez as a nightclub dancer who loves a much younger man.

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الأب الشرعي
Title: الأب الشرعي
Released: February 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Sharifa is a middle-aged woman whose life is dedicated to managing the textile factory that she inherited from her husband, and looking after her family. But an unpleasant surprise lies waiting when she learns that her daughter is in love with their neighbor who is old enough to be her father.
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House of the Poisoned Family
Title: House of the Poisoned Family
Released: June 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Sina' learns of the numerous affairs her husband Shakir has had with other women. At this time, she gets to know Hashem, and they become increasingly close. Hashem learns of the dysfunctions within Sina’’s family and tries to take advantage of this for his own interests, specially after meeting Arfan, the husband of Sina’s sister. Arfan uses Sina’s sister’s money for his own projects, and tries to pressure his daughter Hoda into marrying a rich Arab man.
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Bloody Destinies
Title: Bloody Destinies
Character: Horeya
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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Waraa Al-Shams
Title: Waraa Al-Shams
Character: Sohair
Released: September 3, 1978
Type: Movie
"Behind the Sun" clearly identifies the time identity of his film. It follows the horrific military defeat of June 1967, when a senior military commander insists on an investigation into the real causes of the defeat, leading to his assassination by the commander of the military prison , When the rebel military commander refuses to ignore his insistence on requesting this investigation, during the special visit by "Jaafari" commander of the military prison in order to convince him to do so, "Jaafari" can not escape from his assassination by firing bullets,
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Al-Aqmar
Title: Al-Aqmar
Released: January 1, 1978
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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Caught in a Honey Trap
Title: Caught in a Honey Trap
Released: October 17, 1977
Type: Movie
After falling in love with a young architect,mayssa shocked to know his involvement with an older woman and the relationship he carries with her,a past of struggling and support
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Where Do You Hide the Sun?
Title: Where Do You Hide the Sun?
Released: January 2, 1977
Type: Movie
A mixed cast of Egyptians, Libyans and Moroccans address the issue of corruption among young people, many of whom seem to be suffering greatly from the lingering effects of war.
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Habibat ghayri
Title: Habibat ghayri
Released: October 13, 1976
Type: Movie
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بيت بلا حنان
Title: بيت بلا حنان
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Mother Fatima controls her children. Her eldest son Essam challenges her and urges his brothers to stand up to her. Essam falls for his neighbor, Suhair, who is already married to Usta Rajab. She shares the same feelings, and they agree to marry after she gets divorced.
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Badia Masabni
Title: Badia Masabni
Character: Badia Masabni
Released: December 21, 1975
Type: Movie
The life story of the artist Badia Masabni, from her childhood, through her rape in her hometown in Lebanon, her migration to Egypt, her work as a dancer, her marriage to Najib Al-Rihani, her work as an actress, their divorce, the withholding of taxes on her theater, her selling of the theater to the dancer Biba, her escape with her money to Lebanon, her birthplace, and her death alone.
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On Cellophane Paper
Title: On Cellophane Paper
Released: October 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Qesmat is at crossroads as she suffers from her husband's neglect just as she encounters the open-minded Hesham who breathes new life and paints new color into her life. Rather unconsciously, she draws a constant comparison between her constantly-busy husband and Hesham.
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I'll Never Come Back
Title: I'll Never Come Back
Released: July 29, 1975
Type: Movie
Dr. Ahmed falls in love with the young girl (Souad) who saved his child Essam from drowning, so that the relationship between them develops and Souad becomes pregnant with him, so he is forced to marry her, and he is forced to inform his wife (Hoda), who decides to leave and travel outside the country, before what happens that changes the course of events .
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The Estranged Brothers
Title: The Estranged Brothers
Character: Lula / The Dancer
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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The City's Lost Souls
Title: The City's Lost Souls
Released: January 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Abdullah is a judge who asks court guard Farghali to bring him a maid, he goes to the poor Shohrat who needs money for her children and her addict husband . She has an affair with the judge who gives her money. But when he decides to refrain from paying her, she leaves and he looks for her everywhere.
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The Visitor
Title: The Visitor
Character: Laila / Nadia
Released: November 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Hamed tries to convince Nadia to impersonate Laila, the daughter of his wealthy uncle, to seize his money. Nadia agrees with him and begins setting her net on the wealthy uncle. However, she meets her ex-lover, Hassan, and tells him her story. Hamed discovers the predicament he is in, and his attempt to kill her fails.
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The Barrier
Title: The Barrier
Character: Nadia
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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Faceless Men
Title: Faceless Men
Character: Laila
Released: January 26, 1972
Type: Movie
After he finishes his engineering study, Ahmed meets Layla the hooker and tells his father that he will marry her. The father refuses and stands in the way of this marriage and claims that he was in a relationship with this girl and events escalate.
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عشاق الحياة
Title: عشاق الحياة
Released: November 15, 1971
Type: Movie
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The gentle, the gallant, and the greedy
Title: The gentle, the gallant, and the greedy
Character: Saniya
Released: May 31, 1971
Type: Movie
Wajih heads to Alexandria and lives in one of the apartments there, despite the owner’s objection at first because he is single. Then engineer Anwar, who is going through special circumstances, joins him in the residence.
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الرجل المناسب
Title: الرجل المناسب
Character: منى
Released: January 15, 1970
Type: Movie
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Mama's Secretary
Title: Mama's Secretary
Character: camilia
Released: October 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Amal is a little child who lost her father goes to a circus and finds a man called shalaby who looks exactly like her father. she starts to call him dad and things escalated quickly.
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Nashal raghm anfuh
Title: Nashal raghm anfuh
Released: May 1, 1969
Type: Movie
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My Father Is on the Tree
Title: My Father Is on the Tree
Character: Firdous
Released: February 17, 1969
Type: Movie
A young man is shunned by his friends after he starts an affair with a dancer.
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The Night of Counting the Years
Title: The Night of Counting the Years
Character: Zeina
Released: January 27, 1969
Type: Movie
Set in 1881, a year before the start of British colonial rule, it is based on the true story of the Abd el-Rasuls, an Upper-Egyptian clan that had been robbing a cache of mummies they have discovered at tomb DB320 near the village of Kurna, and selling the artifacts on the black market. After a conflict within the clan, one of its members made a crucial decision when the Antiquities Service arrived.
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Three Stories
Title: Three Stories
Character: الممرضة سميحة - القصة (2)
Released: February 12, 1968
Type: Movie
The film combines 3 separate stories .. The first story (Dunia Allah) to Naguib Mahfouz and starring Salah Mansour and Nahed Sharif .. Tell the story of a courier in a government service approached the age of the pension did not enjoy his life at all decides to embezzlement of employees salaries and travel to Alexandria with one of the girls on the street to enjoy several weeks He was convinced that he did not harm anyone because all the employees did not need a salary except for one employee who was burdened with social burdens.
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Days Of Love
Title: Days Of Love
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
When his leading lady drops out of his film, a director gets a saleswoman for the part and introduces her as a sophisticated lady. When the movie becomes a smash hit, she rebels against the director.
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How to Rob a Millionaire
Title: How to Rob a Millionaire
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Mahfouz is surprised when he wins a thousand pounds in the lottery. But his happiness is short-lived when a beautiful pickpocket steals the money on the bus, which forces him and his friends to go back to working various jobs. Fate puts the pickpocket in their way again.
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A Crime in the Calm Neighbourhood
Title: A Crime in the Calm Neighbourhood
Released: September 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Directed by Houssam El-Din Mustafa.
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Endama Nouheb
Title: Endama Nouheb
Released: June 5, 1967
Type: Movie
Being a swimming champion, many beautiful girls admire Ahmed but he only loves one. However, his life is turned upside down when he has a heart attack that threatens both his sports career and his love life.
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جريمة في الحي الهادي
Title: جريمة في الحي الهادي
Released: April 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Long Nights
Title: The Long Nights
Released: March 20, 1967
Type: Movie
After his wife's death, Mokhtar decides to stay celibate and take care of his children. But he changes his mind when he falls for Nihad and marries her. Their happy marriage is disturbed when Nihad gets pregnant which brings up painful memories for Mokhtar whose first wife died in childbirth.
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The Quail and Autumn
Title: The Quail and Autumn
Character: Riri
Released: February 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Eissa Al-Dabagh is a member of a washed-out political party that was defanged by the 1952 revolution. When he meets the prostitute Riri, he tries to use her to chase the mirage of the power and control he once had. But when he discovers that she is pregnant, he kicks her out.
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Naughty Girl
Title: Naughty Girl
Character: samira
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
The two friends, Shukri and Sami start a rivalry to win the heart of the beautiful nurse Samira, who is in love with Shukri. They start doing pranks to each other and events continue.
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Mansion of Longing
Title: Mansion of Longing
Character: Zuba
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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Life is Sweet
Title: Life is Sweet
Released: November 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Three young men spend their summer at a camp in Alexandria until they cross paths with Mona who suggests that they stay at her grandfather's abandoned villa. Abdel Rahman proposes to turn it into a boardinghouse.
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Enemy of Women
Title: Enemy of Women
Released: September 19, 1966
Type: Movie
Nadia manages to make the famous writer Dr. Essa, who is anti-women, to fall in love with her and change his attitude towards women.
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The Impossible
Title: The Impossible
Released: January 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Helmy's father forces him to marry someone he doesn't love. When his father dies, Helmy decides to break free. He meets Nany, the gentle helpless girl, then he meets the lawyer Fatima, a liberal who claims to be cultured.
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Widow Wanted
Title: Widow Wanted
Character: Suad
Released: December 9, 1965
Type: Movie
One of Ahmed's relatives dies and leaves him a huge fortune to inherit, but on one condition, which is to search for a widow to marry, and he continues to search again and again for someone suitable for the task.
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Unfaithful
Title: Unfaithful
Character: Ilham
Released: November 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Ilham's marriage to a highly successful - and often busy - lawyer is put to the test, and suspicions of infidelity arise.
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Mudaris khususi
Title: Mudaris khususi
Character: Nadia, Mamdouh's sister
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
After his parents got separated and remarried, Mamdouh is going through tough times. He starts stealing cars with his friend. But he decides to quit this crime life and bring his parents back together while they have moved on with their lives.
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For Men Only
Title: For Men Only
Character: Ilham/Mustafa
Released: November 16, 1964
Type: Movie
(Elham and Salwa) two chemical engineers, have been appointed to the Oil Company (Cairo) but are seeking to work in the desert to explore new oil wells, but the company only sends men there. The desert, having progressed to work as two men because of the company's system of accepting only men's travel on these missions, recognizes their colleagues in the desert and lives with them as two men
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Fleeing from life
Title: Fleeing from life
Character: Salwa
Released: April 20, 1964
Type: Movie
Dr. Kamal falls in love with Suhair, who works as a hostess in a nightclub. At the same time, Dr. Mahmoud also loves her. Mahmoud precedes his colleague Kamal in declaring his feelings for her and marrying her.
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Thawrat Al-Banat
Title: Thawrat Al-Banat
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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Unforgettable Love
Title: Unforgettable Love
Character: Amal
Released: December 11, 1963
Type: Movie
Amal (Nadia Lotfi) loves Hussein (Jalal Issa), but her father refuses to marry her to him and manages to kill him, so she lives sad hopes in the world of remembrance, sacrificing her youth and beauty for the sake of the memory of the one she loves, even if she offers her in her loneliness and her monster who humanizes her and who can forget the memory of her first love, then she encounters Adel, a young man similar to her lover, and discovers that he is his little brother, so she becomes kind to him, but she is frightened when she remembers her first love.
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Cairo at Night
Title: Cairo at Night
Released: August 5, 1963
Type: Movie
The Theater Lights Trio try to meet the singer Sabah, but her busy schedule forces her to postpone. As they grow to believe that the Maspero building's guard wants to kick them out, they go on a lot of comic adventures as they meet with a lot of celebrities including Shadya, Fayza Ahmed and Nagat.
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The Black Glasses
Title: The Black Glasses
Character: Madi
Released: April 29, 1963
Type: Movie
When rich celebutante Maddie and worker Omar meet, two completely opposite worlds collide.
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Saladin the Victorious
Title: Saladin the Victorious
Character: Louisa de Lusignan
Released: February 25, 1963
Type: Movie
The first Sultan of Egypt and Syria leads the Muslim military campaign against the invading Christians from Europe during the Third Crusade.
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Gawaz fi khatar
Title: Gawaz fi khatar
Released: January 9, 1963
Type: Movie
Ahmed (Ahmed Ramzy) is a hard-working young man in love with Samira (Nadia Lotfy), a girl from a wealthy family. Both want to get married, but Samira's aunt rejects, given Ahmed's social status. Meanwhile, a belly dancer in love with Ahmed is trying to keep them apart.
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A Bachelor’s Life
Title: A Bachelor’s Life
Character: هدى
Released: January 7, 1963
Type: Movie
Omar is a single employee who loves his neighbor Hoda, but her father refuses their marriage. Omar spends a night with his friends at a nightclub and the dancer, Aziza goes home with him. When she tries a drug by accident, she passes out and he thinks she's dead.
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صراع الجبابرة
Title: صراع الجبابرة
Character: ليليان
Released: December 27, 1962
Type: Movie
Lillian is a Jewish dancer who has a number of admirers, including Farid, a wealthy lonely young man. Lillian leaves Farid in order to go to Palestine. Farid then meets Goaher, another dancer. Goaher is married to El Saba’i, who along with his colleague Simbel, protect her. Goaher refuses to give any of what she earns to El Saba’i, so Saba’i attempts to ambush, rob, and kill Farid, and events ensue.
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Men Gheir Ma'ad
Title: Men Gheir Ma'ad
Character: نادية
Released: December 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Salwa (Soad Hosni) secretly loves Waheed (Mohamed Sultan) . While Waheed loves Nadia (Nadia Lotfy). Meanwhile, Kamal (Moharram Fouad) falls in love with Nadia too, and keeps his love discreet .But when he knows that his friend ,Waheed, loves her, he decides to keep a distance from Nadia.
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مذكرات تلميذة
Title: مذكرات تلميذة
Character: نادية
Released: November 4, 1962
Type: Movie
A coming of age story about a dreamy girl.
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أيام بلا حب
Title: أيام بلا حب
Character: Nadia Shaker
Released: September 17, 1962
Type: Movie
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Alkhataya
Title: Alkhataya
Character: Soheir
Released: March 4, 1962
Type: Movie
Hussein and Ahmad are brothers. Hussein falls in love with a colleague, but his father mysteriously decides that Ahmad should marry her instead.
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The Sun Will Never Set
Title: The Sun Will Never Set
Character: Shahira
Released: December 25, 1961
Type: Movie
An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh (Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother’s step and decides to make his own decisions in his life.
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نصف عذراء
Title: نصف عذراء
Released: June 7, 1961
Type: Movie
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Lost in Memories
Title: Lost in Memories
Character: Amal
Released: March 8, 1961
Type: Movie
After a tragic accident on set, movie star, Sherif, now has to live with the consequence of that day. He falls into a state of grief and loneliness, but with the help of his cousin, Amal, the details of that fateful day starts to reveal itself.
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The Seven Daughters
Title: The Seven Daughters
Character: أحلام
Released: January 16, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and Salwa, fall in love and suffer the agonies of it, only for their dad to try to save them the heartache.
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عمالقة البحار
Title: عمالقة البحار
Released: December 18, 1960
Type: Movie
A story about some Arab soldiers takes place after The Tripartite Aggression
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My Only Love
Title: My Only Love
Character: Mona
Released: October 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Adel and Mona are in love, and just as they were about to get engaged, Adel has an accident. When he recovers, he finds that the only woman he loved is now married to another man.
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Forever Yours
Title: Forever Yours
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
A young employee tries to cover for his colleague, whom he loves, after he discovers that she embezzled money from the company they work in. As he gets accused of her crime, he gets involved in her husband's murder and tries to escape.
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Soultan
Title: Soultan
Character: الصحفية خطيبة عصام
Released: October 5, 1958
Type: Movie
The story revolves around Sultan, the poor child who grows up and becomes a military correspondent at an elite brigade. He enjoys the sympathy of the police officer, the son of the general, unlike the rest of the house.