Country: Egypt
Year: 1953
Duration: 114'
The businessman Murad is in love with his secretary Amina. When he discovers that she is ill and about to go blind, he decides to marry her. Her cousin Salwa, who wanted to marry Murad, tries to separate the couple by attempting to convince Murad that Amina is cheating on him. Amina goes blind and can't prove her own innocence. A surgical operation gives her back her sight and lets her defend herself against the accusations.
"Mu'amara is an avant-garde film on a formal level: I used sound effects in a dramatic way and I freed myself of traditional time boundaries in the narration. It is an "Egyptianized" remake of the British film Madness of the Heart. It was a great failure with the public, the only one in my whole career. It had heavy repercussions because it was my second film. But who knows if it won't be rehabilitated now…" (Kamal Al Sheikh, in an interview by Samir Farid, published in "The Cairo Film Club Bulletin", March 1, 1972).
Biography
film director
Kamal Al Sheikh
Kamal Al Sheikh (1919). Director, screenwriter and editor, he began his artistic career in the editing department of Studio Misr in 1938. In 1943 he edited the film Al Bu'asà (Les misérables), directed by Kamal Salim. He has made over 35 feature films and four documentary short films Sadat al ma'arik (The War Lords, 1953), Mu'ahadat al gialà (The Accord on England's Removal of its Army from Egypt, 1954), Hadihi hiya Suriyya (This is Syria, 1958), Hiwar (Conversation, 1972).
FILMOGRAFIA
Al manzil raqam 13 (La casa numero 13, 1952), Mu'amara (Complotto, 1953), Hayat aw mawt (Vita o morte, 1954), Hubb wa dumu'e (Amore e lacrime, 1955), Al gharib (Lo straniero, co-regia Fattin Abdu Al Wahab, 1956), Hubb wa i'dam (Amore e esecuzione, 1956), Ardu al salam (La terra della pace, 1957), Ardu al ahlam (La terra dei sogni, 1957), Tuggiaru al mawt (I commercianti della morte, 1957), Al malak al saghir (Il piccolo angelo, 1958), Saiyyidatu al qassr (La signora del palazzo, 1958), Min ajli imra'a (Per una donna, 1959), Qalbun yahtariq (Un cuore che brucia, 1959), Min ajli hubbi (Per il mio amore, 1959), Malak wa shaittan (Angelo e diavolo, 1960), Hubbi al wahid (Il mio unico amore, 1960), Lan a'tarif (Non confesserò, 1961), Al liss wa al kilab (Il ladro e i cani, 1962), Al shaittanu al saghir (Il piccolo diavolo, 1963), Al laila al akhira (L'ultima notte, 1963), Al kha'ina (La traditrice, 1965), Thalathat lussus (Tre ladri, film a episodi, co-regia Hasan Al Imam e Fattin Abdu Al Wahab, 1966), Al mukharribun (I sabotatori, 1967), Al ragiul alladhi faqada dhillahu (L' uomo che ha perduto la sua ombra, 1968), Miramar (1969), Bi'ru al hirman (Il pozzo della privazione, 1969), Ghurub wa shuruq (Crepuscolo e aurora, 1970), Shai'un Fi Sadri (Qualcosa nel mio cuore, 1971), Al harib (Il fuggitivo, 1974), Al Man Nuttliqu Al Rassas (Su chi spariamo, 1975), Sana ula hubb (Primo anno d'amore, co-regia Salah Abu Seif, Atif Salem, Hilmi Rafla e Niazi Mustafa, 1976), Wa thlithuhum al shaittan (Il terzo è il diavolo, 1978), Al su'ud ila al hawiya (L'ascesa verso l'abisso, 1978), Al tauws (Il pavone, 1982), Qahiru al zaman (Il domatore del tempo, 1987).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Kamal Al Sheikh.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura e dialoghi: Ali Al Zarqani.
Director of photography: Ahmad Khurshid.
Art director: Maher Abdu Al Nurr.
Editor: Amira Fayid.
Sound: Nassri Abdu Al Nurr.
Cast and characters: Madiha Yusri (Amina), Yahia Shahin (Murad), Amina Nur Al Din (Salwa), Siraj Munir, Rushdi Abadha, Zainab Sidqi, Abdu Al Rahim Al Zarqani, Wagih Al Attrash.
Production company: Mohammad Hamada Film.
Italian distribution: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura e dialoghi: Ali Al Zarqani.
Director of photography: Ahmad Khurshid.
Art director: Maher Abdu Al Nurr.
Editor: Amira Fayid.
Sound: Nassri Abdu Al Nurr.
Cast and characters: Madiha Yusri (Amina), Yahia Shahin (Murad), Amina Nur Al Din (Salwa), Siraj Munir, Rushdi Abadha, Zainab Sidqi, Abdu Al Rahim Al Zarqani, Wagih Al Attrash.
Production company: Mohammad Hamada Film.
Italian distribution: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema.