Cinema
The Sin
الحرام
Henry Barakat · 1965
Synopsis
Aziza and her husband Abdallah live among the agricultural day labourers, those seasonal workers who hire out their labour from estate to estate. Abdallah falls ill and can no longer work; Aziza replaces him in the fields. One day while she is gathering potatoes, she is caught by surprise and assaulted, by a guard according to mopopoc, by the owner according to the Turin presentation. She hides what happened to her from her husband, and shame eats at her in silence.
Context
The film is based on the novel by Youssef Idris. Saad Eddine Wahba wrote the screenplay and dialogue, Diaa el-Mahdi shot the images and Soliman Gamil composed the music. Faten Hamama plays Aziza, Abdallah Gheith her husband and Zaki Rostom the man who assaults her. The film was distributed in the United States in 1974, and Le Monde saw in it the suffering of a whole village rather than an individual drama.
Who it is for
A black-and-white feature film of about an hour and three quarters, in Egyptian Arabic, based on Youssef Idris.
Prizes and reception
In competition at Cannes in 1965 and included in the list of the hundred best Egyptian films.
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