Fathia takes care of her sick father, and loves the young doctor treating him. One day the brother discovers that she's adopted by his parents from a shelter, and when the day of engagement with the doctor arrives, the brother gets drunk and tells Fathia the truth to turn her life upside down.
Acting
Mariam Fakhr Eddine's face crumpling—silent film technique in sound cinema.
Direction
Zulfiqar's framing of women's imprisonment in domestic spaces.
Director
Mahmoud Zulfiqar
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This film exemplifies the 'social melodrama' genre dominating 1950s Egyptian cinema, where women's bodies became battlegrounds for debates about modernity and tradition in Nasser's Egypt.
Mariam Fakhr Eddine was so associated with suffering heroines that audiences reportedly sent her condolence letters after screenings.
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