Ibrahim is a young, rich Egyptian, who has one passion: women. When the singer Ashgian rejects him, he decides to go to Lebanon, where he meets Salma and falls in love with her. When he runs into the singer Ashgian again, Salma thinks that Ibrahim and Ashgian are having a relationship and tries to kill herself. But Ibrahim manages to save Salma and marries her.
Biography
film director
Gianni Vernuccio
Gianni Vernuccio was born in Cairo in 1918, studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, and for several years was an editor at the Istituto Luce, for which he directed a series of short films in the 1940's (Piccoli alpini, Il paese delle fisarmoniche, Circo, Armonie del Verbano). He returned to Egypt at the end of the war, and debuted in full-length films in 1947. Upon his return to Italy, he directed many different types of films, from adventure films to horror.
FILMOGRAFIA
Camelia (1947), Sangue sul deserto (1948), Uomini senza domani (Ombre nella nebbia) (1948), Misri fi Lubnan (Un egiziano in Libano, 1950), Canzoni a due voci (1952), Il tesoro del Bengala (1953), Le avventure di Cartouche (1954), La peccatrice del deserto (1955), Gli amanti del deserto (1957), L'inferno addosso (1961), A due passi dal confine (1962), Gli italiani si divertono così (1963), L'uomo che bruciò il suo cadavere (1964), Un amore (1966), La lunga notte di Veronique (1967), Paolo e Francesca (1969), Caino era il migliore (1972).
Cast
& Credits
Soggetto, sceneggiatura e dialoghi: Saleh Giawdat.
Director of photography: Massimo Della Mano.
Art director: Robert Scharfenberg.
Editor: Mohammad Abbas.
Music: Ibrahim Hajjaj.
Sound: Nassri Abdu Al Nur, Kamal Abdullah.
Songs: Saleh Giawdat, Abdu Al Ghani Al Sheikh (testi), Ahmad Sidqi, Mohammad Al Qasabgi, Abdu Al Ghani Al Sheikh, Riyad al Sunbatti (musica).
Interprete canzoni: Nur Al Huda.
Cast and characters: Nur Al Huda (Salma), Kamal Al Shinnawi (Ibrahim), Lola Sidqi (Ashgian), Ilias Mu'addab (Suleiman), Zeki Ibrahim (Fares), Gihan, Armando, Mahmud Farid.
Production company: Aflam Al Giabiri.
Italian distribution: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema.