Wakeful Eyes (Egyptian Arabic: عيون سهرانة, translit: Uyoon Sahranah, aliases: Sleepless Night) is a 1956 Egyptian romantic drama directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar.[1][2][3][4] It stars Salah Zulfikar and Shadia. The film is Salah Zulfikar's film debut.[5][6][7][8][9]

Wakeful Eyes
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Egyptian Arabicعيون سهرانة
Directed byEzz El-Dine Zulficar
Written byYoussef Eissa
Screenplay byEzz El-Dine Zulficar
Produced byGabriel Talhamy
Starring
CinematographyWadeed Serry
Edited byMohammed Abbas
Music byAndre Ryder
Production
company
Gabriel Talhamy Films
Distributed byGabriel Talhamy Films
Release date
  • October 1, 1956 (1956-10-01) (Egypt)
Running time
120 minutes
CountryEgypt
LanguageEgyptian Arabic

Plot

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A good man "Saber Effendi" hardly settled for months in one house with his daughter Fatima. He claims to her that he works in a newspaper printing press, hates mixing with people, and takes pity on her from temptation. In the new residence, "Fatma" contacts the neighbor's son; “Salah” (Salah Zulfikar) who is a student in the last year of the Police College, and they are bound by love, so he goes to marry her from her father, where he works in the newspaper. The daughter discovers that her father does not work in that newspaper. She returns home and tells him about her discovery, and he confesses to her that he was a secretary to the prosecution. And he had another older daughter, who committed suicide to get rid of shame, and confessed to him while she was dying in the name of the one who seduced her and deserted her. The man is afraid that he will be arrested, so he runs away with his other child, and comes to Cairo, where he changes his name.[10]

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References

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  1. ^ Rūz al-Yūsuf (in Arabic). September 1989.
  2. ^ محمود, قاسم، (2014). موسوعة الأغنيات في السينما المصرية: من 1953 حتى 1956 (in Arabic). Wizārat al-Thaqāfah, al-Hayʼah al-ʻĀmmah li-Quṣūr al-Thaqāfah. ISBN 978-977-718-641-4.
  3. ^ al-Sīnimā wa-al-nās: el Cinema wal nas (in Arabic). al-Jamʻīyah al-Miṣrīyah li-Fann al-Sīnimā. 2000.
  4. ^ al-Usbūʻ al-ʻArabī (in Arabic). August 1967.
  5. ^ Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35116-6.
  6. ^ "Ahram Online - Remembering Fouad El-Mohandes: The Master of Egyptian comedy". english.ahram.org.eg. Retrieved 2021-09-16.
  7. ^ Ayoun Sahrana (1956), retrieved 2021-09-16
  8. ^ Hassan, Ashraf (2020). Stereotyped Representation of the Foreigner in Egyptian Cinema A Phono-Morpho-Syntactic and Lexical Study and Corpus. Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaftliche Fakultät Arabistik.
  9. ^ "Remembering Fouad El-Mohandes: The Master of Egyptian comedy - Film - Arts & Culture". Ahram Online. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
  10. ^ "Remembering Salah Zulficar - Film - Arts & Culture". Ahram Online. Retrieved 2021-09-21.
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