My Wife's Dignity (Egyptian Arabic: كرامة زوجتي translit: Karamet Zawgati or Karamat Zawjati)[1] is 1967 Egyptian film written by Ihsan Abdel Quddous and directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab.[2] It stars Salah Zulfikar and Shadia.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
My Wife's Dignity | |
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Directed by | Fatin Abdel Wahab |
Written by | Ihsan Abdel Quddous |
Screenplay by | Mohammed Mostafa Samy |
Produced by | Ramses Naguib |
Starring | Salah Zulfikar Shadia |
Cinematography | Abdel Halim Nasr |
Edited by | Hussein Afify |
Music by | Fouad El Zahery |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Cairo Cinema Distribution Corporation |
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Country | Egypt |
Language | Egyptian Arabic |
Plot
editMahmoud is a womanizer. He spends all his time in relationships without thinking about marriage and tries to get close to Nadia, his club partner for five years, but she repels him, forcing him to ask for marriage and stipulates that before agreeing that if he betrays her, she will betray him in the same way. Mahmoud agrees and marries her, and she succeeds in turning him into another successful person in his working life. After months of marriage, the wife suspects her husband's actions, then discovers his betrayal with one of his clients, and begins to act with him in a way that suggests that she is cheating on him, which makes him live in torment and pain, and when the suspicion increases, he divorces her and leaves Cairo to forget his pain, and when he returns to his office, he is surprised by the agent of the office, and he presents him with a file, and he sees the documents that confirm that his wife did not cheat on him and knows that everything that happened was just an act, he decides to return to his wife after she had taught him an unforgettable lesson.[10]
Cast
edit- Salah Zulfikar: Mahmoud Mokhtar
- Shadia: Nadia
- Ragaa Al-Geddawy: Suhair
- George Sidhom: Samida Abdel Samad – Al-Jasoon
- Adel Emam: Amin
- Sharifa Maher: Salwa
- Zeinat Olwi: Dancer
- Mahmoud Rashad: Nadia's uncle
- Thoraya Helmy: Dancer
References
edit- ^ Cowie, Peter; Elley, Derek (1977). World Filmography: 1967. Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press. ISBN 978-0-498-01565-6.
- ^ طاقم العمل: فيلم - كرامة زوجتي - 1967 (in Arabic), retrieved 22 July 2021
- ^ "Five groundbreaking roles by Shadia which inspired social change". EgyptToday. 2 December 2017. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "Front Matter". Literature/Film Quarterly. 38 (2). 2010. ISSN 0090-4260. JSTOR 43797663.
- ^ Cooledge, Dean R. (2010). "Editorial: History—"Half of Writing is Revision"". Literature/Film Quarterly. 38 (2): 82–83. ISSN 0090-4260. JSTOR 43797664.
- ^ Shakespeare and the Arab World. Vol. 3 (1 ed.). Berghahn Books. 2019. ISBN 978-1-78920-259-5. JSTOR j.ctv1850hj6.
- ^ Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35116-6.
- ^ Leaman, Oliver (16 December 2003). Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-134-66252-4.
- ^ Sloan, Jane (26 March 2007). Reel Women: An International Directory of Contemporary Feature Films about Women. Scarecrow Press. ISBN 978-1-4616-7082-7.
- ^ Movie – My Wife's Dignity – 1967 Cast، Video، Trailer، photos، Reviews، Showtimes, retrieved 28 August 2021
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