Our Blessed Aunt

Our Blessed Aunt (Arabic: ست الستات, transliterated as Sett al-Settat) is an Egyptian comedy, drama film released on June 29, 1998. The film is directed and written by Raafat el-Mehi and stars Laila Elwi, Maged el-Masry, and Magda El-Khatib. The story concerns a young Abdelaziz, who returns to Cairo from another unspecified Arab country. Coming back to his aunt Fakiha's apartment, he discovers that it has become a brothel run by a madam who denies that she is related to him.

Our Blessed Aunt
ست الستات
Directed by	Raafat el-Mehi
Written by	Raafat el-Mehi
Produced by	Raafat el-Mehi Ayman al-Arab
Starring	Laila Elwi Maged el-Masry Magda El-Khatib
Cinematography	Ayman Abu el-Makarem
Edited by	Ahmed Daoud
Music by	Fathi al-Khamisi
Production company	Studio 13
Release date	June 29, 1998 (1998-06-29)
Running time	123 minutes
Country	Egypt
Language	Arabic

Cast

• Laila Elwi (Lola)
• Maged el-Masry (Abdelaziz)
• Hassan Hosny (Hassan el-Demerdash)
• Magda El-Khatib (Basant Abdel-Al/Fakiha al-Sharnoubi/Sitt al-Satat)
• Entessar (Zeinab/Dudu)
• Ali Hassanein (Mamoun Hafez)
• Mukhles al-Buhairi (Major General Azzouz)
• Saeed al-Saleh (Fawzy, a paralegal)
• Ahmed Rizk (Hamada, a soldier)
• Abdulrahim El-Tanir (minister)
• Mohaja Abdelrahman (Sheikha Hosina)
• Diaa Abdel Khalek (taxi driver)
• Nashat Talaat
• Ahmed Saeed
• Najah Fahim
• Iman Wahba
• Youssef Abdelmaqsoud
• Hazem Fouad
• Laila Abdelhakim
• Hazem Mamdouh
• Jihan Wehbe
• Laila Helmy
• Moushira
• Azza Fouad
• Ismat Kamal
• Ahmed Samir
• Rasha Fouad
• Ahmed Bahloul

Synopsis

The comedy's protagonist Abdelaziz (Maged el-Masry) returns to Cairo after working in another unnamed Arab country. Going to the apartment of his aunt Fakiha (Magda el-Khatib), he discovers that it has become a brothel. Lola (Laila Elwi), one of the prostitutes there, tries to convince him to marry her. He has them make the place a pension, but they carry on their old profession anyway. Everyone is arrested, and Abdelaziz discovers a big surprise.

Legacy

Critic Nisreen al-Rashidi cited the film among others on the website 3ain, remarking that:

Egyptian cinema has presented women and dealt with their problems throughout its history, even addressing them by name, sometimes as “mara” [woman] and sometimes as “sitt” [lady]…Here we monitor ten films using the word “sitt” from the earliest days of the silver screen to today.

External links

• El Cinema page
• Dhliz page
• Karohat page