Country: Egypt
Year: 1946
Duration: 80'
Fat-hi, a police officer, moves to Cairo from the country along with his wife Madiha and their two children. In the city, Madiha makes friends with Faiqa, a divorced woman with a son. One evening Fat-hi and his men raid the house of Madame Renò, who is having a party, and finds Madiha and Faiqa. The policeman repudiates his wife, but Faiqa confesses to Fat-hi that she convinced Madiha to go to the party. Fat-hi forgives Madiha and the two decide to return to their village.
"Dahaya al madaniyya is the only film produced by Amina Rizq, one of the most famous actresses of Egyptian and Arab theater and cinema. Rizq, who debuted in 1923, still performs. As part of a policy of film restoration, the Cultural Development Fund financed the restoration of this film in the 1990's" (Samir Farid).
Biography
film director
Niazi Mustafa
Niazi Mustafa (Asiutt, Egypt, 1911 - Cairo, 1986). Director, author, screenwriter and editor, after graduating from Munich's school of cinema, in 1934 he followed specialization courses at the UFA in Berlin. He worked as editor at Studio Misr right from the studio's inauguration in 1935. In 1936 he became head of the editing department. He has directed numerous full-length films, seven documentaries and two short films.
FILMOGRAFIA
Casinò Badi'a (1936), Salama fi khair (Salama sta bene, 1937), El doctor (Il dottore, 1939), Si' Omar (Il Signor Omar, 1941), Rabha (1943), Taqiyatu al ikhfà (Il cappello magico, 1944), Antar wa Abla (Antar e Abla, 1945), Dahaya al madaniyya (Le vittime della civilizzazione, 1946), Min aina laka hadha (Come hai avuto tutto questo, 1952), Ardu al abttal (La terra degli eroi, 1953), Hamido (1953), Al fares al aswad (Il cavaliere nero, 1954), Sighara we kas (Una sigaretta e un bicchierino, 1955), Rassif nimra 5 (Il molo numero 5, 1956), Sawwaq nisf il lel (Il conducente di mezzanotte, 1958), Isma'il Yasin Tarzan (1958), Fadiha fi al Zamalek (Scandalo nel quartiere Zamalek, 1959), Sirru taqiati al ikhfà (Il segreto del cappello magico, 1959), Dima'un ala al Nil (Sangue sul Nilo, 1961), Antar Ibnu Shaddad (1961), Al giasus (La spia, 1964), Bint Antar (La figlia di Antar, 1964), Saghira ala al hubb (Piccola per amare, 1966), Faris Bani Hamdan (Il cavaliere di Bani Hamdan, 1966), Shabab majnun giddan (Gioventù molto pazza, 1967), El ataba gazaz (La soglia di vetro, 1969), Al mut'a wa al adhab (Il piacere e la sofferenza, 1971), Bint ismaha Mahmud (Una ragazza di nome Mahmud, 1975), Sana ula hubb (Primo anno d'amore, co-regia Salah Abu Seif, Atif Salem, Hilmi Rafla e Kamal Al Sheikh, 1976), El dabbah (Lo sgozzatore, 1987).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, sceneggiatura, dialoghi e montaggio: Niazi Mustafa.
Plot: Yusuf Wahbi.
Director of photography: Giulio De Luca.
Scenografia e costumi: Walii Al Din Sameh.
Music: Abdu Al Halim Nuwaira.
Sound: Muhsin Sabo'.
Cast and characters: Amina Rizq (Madiha), Yahia Shahin (Fat-hi), Firdos Hasan (Faiqa), Zeki Rustum, Mahmud Al Miligi, Fakher Fakher, Hasan Al Barudi, Thuraiyya Fakhri.
Production company: Aflam Amina Rizq.
Italian distribution: Bahna Film.
Plot: Yusuf Wahbi.
Director of photography: Giulio De Luca.
Scenografia e costumi: Walii Al Din Sameh.
Music: Abdu Al Halim Nuwaira.
Sound: Muhsin Sabo'.
Cast and characters: Amina Rizq (Madiha), Yahia Shahin (Fat-hi), Firdos Hasan (Faiqa), Zeki Rustum, Mahmud Al Miligi, Fakher Fakher, Hasan Al Barudi, Thuraiyya Fakhri.
Production company: Aflam Amina Rizq.
Italian distribution: Bahna Film.