Nightigale's Prayer (The)

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Genre : Drama
Type : Fiction
Original title :
Principal country concerned : Column : Cinema/tv
Year of production : 1959
Format : Feature
Running time : 109 (in minutes)

A poor woman plots revenge against the engineer who soiled her family name in this drama starring Arabian screen sensation Faten Hamama. As tradition and poverty weigh down on Amna (Mamama)'s shoulders following a the desecration of her family honor by a brazen engineer (Ahmed Mazhar), the determined young woman decides to fight back and take back her name despite the grueling battle that lies ahead.

Egypte, 1959, Drama, 126'

based upon a novel for Taha Hussein with the same name,

Directed by Henry Barket
starring Fatan Hamma and Ahmed Mazhar



That film was chosen as number 12 in the top 15 films chosen by Egyptian film critics in 100 years.

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