Country: Egypt
Year: 1958
Duration: 115'


The film takes place before the Revolution of July 1952. Ever since her mother's death, Amina has lived with her aunt, her uncle and their son. Amina suffers because of her uncle's traditionalist attitude towards women. After graduating from university, she moves in with her father, who has a more open mentality. She is imprisoned for her political views, but is released after the Revolution.

"Between Al wisada al khaliya (The Empty Pillow), filmed in 1957 and Ana hurra, 1959, I made many films based on novels by my favorite author, Ihsam Abdu Al Quddus, which centered on women in Egyptian society. Not only films that deal with poverty should be considered realistic: the films I based on Abdu Al Quddus' novels are realistic, too. Ana hurra represents an authentic cry of protest, at least for the times in which it was filmed" (Salah Abu Seif, in an interview with Samir Farid, published in the "Cairo Film Club Bulletin", February 9, 1972).

Biography

film director

Salah Abu Seif

Salah Abu Seif (Cairo, 1915-1996). Director, producer, author and editor, he began as a movie critic, and debuted in cinema as director's assistant for the film Tita Wong, directed by Amina Mohammad in 1937. He worked as editor for Studio Misr and has published theoretical texts on cinema.

FILMOGRAFIA

Al muassalat fi al Iskindiriyya (Il traffico ad Alssandria, doc., 1940), Yawm fi mu'askar hindi (Una giornata in un campo militare indiano, doc., 1940), Nimra 6 (Numero 6, cm, 1942), Daiman fi qalbi (Per sempre nel mio cuore, 1946), Al muntaqim (Il vendicatore, 1947), Mughamarat Antar wa Abla (Le avventure di Antar e Abla, 1948), Al saqr (Il falcone, 1950), El usstta Hasan (Il maestro Hasan, 1952), Raiyya we Skena (Raiyya e Skena, 1953), Al wahsh (Il mostro, 1954), Shabab imra'a (La gioventù di una donna, 1956), Il fitiwwa (Lo spaccone, 1957), La anam (Non dormo, 1957), Al tariq al masdud (La strada senza uscita, cm, 1958), Ana hurra (Sono una donna libera, 1959), Baina al samà wa al ard (Tra cielo e terra, 1959), Law'atu al hubb (Le sofferenze dell'amore, 1960), Al banat wa al saif (Le ragazze e l' estate, film a episodi, co-regia Izzuddin Zul Fiqar e Fattin Abdu Al Wahab, 1960), Bidaya wa nihaya (L'nizio e la fine, 1960), La tuttfi'i al shams (Non spegnere il sole, 1961), La waqta li al hubb (Non c' è tempo per l' amore, 1963), Al Qahira 30 (Il Cairo 30, 1966), Al zawgia al thaniya (La seconda moglie, 1967), Al qadiyya 68 (Il caso numero 68, 1968), 3 nisa'in (3 donne, film a episodi, co-regia Henry Barakat e Mahmud Zul Fiqar, 1969), Hammam el Malatili (I bagni di Malatili, 1972), Sana ula hubb (Primo anno d' amore, film a episodi, co-regia Niazi Mustafa, Atif Salem, Hilmi Rafla e Kamal Al Sheikh, 1976), El saqqa mat (Il portatore d'acqua è morto, 1977), Al Qadisiyya (1980), Al bidaya (L'inizio, 1986), Al muwatin massri (Il cittadino egiziano, 1991), Al sayyid Kaf (Il signor Kaf, 1994).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Salah Abu Seif.
Plot: Ihsan Abdu Al Quddus.
Screenplay: Nagib Mahfuz.
Dialogues: Al Sayyid Boder.
Director of photography: Mahmud Nassr.
Art director: Antoine Polisois.
Editor: Attiyya Abdu.
Sound: Gregor.
Music: Fu'ad Al Dhahiri.
Cast: Lubna Abdu Al Aziz, Shukri Sarhan, Husein Riyad, Zuzu Nabil, Kamal Yasin, Giamal Sami, Leila Karim, Mohammad Abdu Al Quddus.
Production company: Aflam Ramsis Nagib.
Italian distribution: Al Sharq.
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