Country: Egypt
Year: 1945
Duration: 100'
Cairo, a poor neighborhood, 1943. Hamed and Nagiyya want to get married. The store owner Sayyid convinces Abu Mahmud, Nagiyya 's father, to work on the black market, while Hamed tries to stop him from doing so. Abu Mahmud gives his daughter's hand in marriage to his colleague Sayyid, against Nagiyya's will. After various vicissitudes, the neighborhood rebels against Sayyid's and Abu Mahmud's men, and chases them away.
"The lack of success of my first film, Al suqq al sawd`, was due to its realism: people only want to see films that make them dream and evade from daily life. The public expects the same effect from movies that they do from drugs. Most of the successful movies tell made-up stories, with no relation to reality. I am in a schizophrenic situation. I loved Al suqq al sawd`, while the public didn't like it. On the contrary, my second film, El berimo (The Prize) was much appreciated by the public, and not by me" (Kamel Al Tilmisani, 1947).
Biography
film director
Kamel Al Tilmisani
Kamel Al Tilmisani (Nawa, Egypt, 1915 - Beirut, 1972). Director, screenwriter, painter, critic and author. His real name is Mohammed Kamel Abdu Al Rahman Al Tilmisani. He began his artistic career as a painter, and belonged to the group "Giama'at al fann wa al hurriyya al tali'iyya (the group of art and avant-garde liberty). He emigrated to Lebanon in 1960 and has worked with the Rahbani brothers and the singer Feiruz as artistic consultant for their theatrical shows and their films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Al suq al sawdà (Il mercato nero, 1945), El berimo (Il premio, 1947), Shamshun al giabbar (Sanson il Gigante, 1948), El bustagi (Il postino, 1948), Kaidu al nisà (L'astuzia delle donne, 1950), Ana wa habibi (Io e il mio amore, 1953), Al ustadh sharaf (Il professore Sharaf, 1954), Madrasatu al banat (La scuola delle ragazze, 1955), Mau'id ma'a iblis (Appuntamento con il diavolo, 1955), El nas illi taht (La gente che sta sotto, 1960).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto e sceneggiatura: Kamel Al Tilmisani.
Dialogues: Beram Al Tunsi.
Director of photography: Ahmad Khurshid.
Art director: Antoine Polisois.
Costume designer: Qasem Wajdi.
Editor: Emil Bahri.
Sound: Aziz Fadel.
Music: Mohammad Hasan Al Shugia'i.
Cast and characters: Aqila Rateb (Nagiyya), Imad Hamdi (Hamed), Zeki Rustum (Abu Mahmud), Abdu Al Fattah Al Qassari (Sayyid), Mohammad Kamal Al Massri (Hashem), Mohammad Tawfiq (Hasan), Firdos Mohammad, Thuraiyya Hilmi.
Production company and Italian distribution: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema.
Dialogues: Beram Al Tunsi.
Director of photography: Ahmad Khurshid.
Art director: Antoine Polisois.
Costume designer: Qasem Wajdi.
Editor: Emil Bahri.
Sound: Aziz Fadel.
Music: Mohammad Hasan Al Shugia'i.
Cast and characters: Aqila Rateb (Nagiyya), Imad Hamdi (Hamed), Zeki Rustum (Abu Mahmud), Abdu Al Fattah Al Qassari (Sayyid), Mohammad Kamal Al Massri (Hashem), Mohammad Tawfiq (Hasan), Firdos Mohammad, Thuraiyya Hilmi.
Production company and Italian distribution: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema.