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Cairo 30

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Cairo 30
Directed by	Salah Abu Seif
Screenplay by	Salah Abu Seif Naguib Mahfouz
Based on	Modern Cairo by Naguib Mahfouz
Produced by	Gamal El Leithy
Starring	Soad Hosny Ahmed Mazhar
Cinematography	Wahid Farid
Music by	Fouad El Zahry
Release date	31 October 1966 (1966-10-31)
Running time	130 minutes
Country	Egypt
Language	Arabic

Cairo 30 (Arabic: القاهرة 30, translit. Al-Qāhira 30) is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Salāḥ Abu Seif,^[1] and based on Naguib Mahfouz's 1945 novel Modern Cairo.^[2] The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominée.^[3]

Cast

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Soad Hosny as Ihsan
Ahmed Mazhar as The minister
Hamdy Ahmed as Mahgoub Abdel Dayem
Abdelmonem Ibrahim as Ahmed Bedier
Tawfik El Deken as Shahata Tourky
Abdelaziz Mikewy as Ali Taha
Aqeila Rateb as The minister's wife
Ahmed Tawfik as Salem El Ekshidy
Bahiga Hafez as Ikram hanem

Synopsis

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The film takes place in the 1930’s, when a young man named Mahjoub Abdeldayem (Hamdy Ahmed) comes from Upper Egypt to the slums of Cairo and gets to know a native of his village (Salem al-Ikhshidi) who offers a job lead. The job is to marry Ihsan (Soad Hosny), mistress of Qasim Bey (Ahmed Mazhar, on condition that Qasim visits her once a week.

References

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^ "Retrospective on Film: The Golden Age of Egyptian Cinema – the 1940s to 1960s". zenithfoundation. Archived from the original on 28 November 2011. Retrieved 10 November 2011.
^ "Egypt's cinematic gems: Cairo 30". Mada Masr.
^ Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

External links

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Cairo 30 at IMDb

Films directed by Salah Abu Seif

The Adventures of Antar and Abla (1948)
Your Day Will Come (1951)
Love Humiliates (1952)
The Monster (1954)
The Leech (1956)
The Tough (1957)
Sleepless (1957)
The Barred Road (1958)
This Is Love (1958)
I Am Free (1959)
Between Heaven and Earth (1959)
The Beginning and the End (1960)
The Sun Will Never Set (1961)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1962)
Cairo 30 (1966)
The Second Wife (1967)
Three Women (1968)
Malatily Bathhouse (1973)
The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
The Criminal (1978)
Al Qadisiyya (1981)
War in the Land of Egypt (1991)

v t e Works by Naguib Mahfouz
Cairo Trilogy	Palace Walk (1956) Palace of Desire (1957) Sugar Street (1957)
Other novels	Khufu's Wisdom (1939) Rhadopis of Nubia (1943) Thebes at War (1944) Midaq Alley (1947) The Mirage (1948) The Beginning and the End (1949) Children of Gebelawi (1959) The Thief and the Dogs (1961) Autumn Quail (1962) The Search (1964) The Beggar (1965) Adrift on the Nile (1966) Miramar (1967) Mirrors (1972) Love in the Rain (1973) Karnak Café (1974) The Harafish (1977) Wedding Song (1981) Arabian Nights and Days (1982) The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (1983) The Day the Leader Was Killed (1983) Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (1985) The Coffeehouse (1988)
Short stories	"Zaabalawi" (1961) "Qismati and Nasibi" (1982)
Story collections	Whisper of Madness (1947) God's World (1962) A Story Without a Beginning or an Ending (1971) The Crime (1973) Stories from Our Neighbourhood (1975)
Screenplays	The Adventures of Antar and Abla (1948) Your Day Will Come (1951) The Monster (1954) The Tough (1957) The Barred Road (1958) Jamila, the Algerian (1958) Between Heaven and Earth (1959) Allahu Akbar (1959) The Choice (1970)
Adaptations	The Beginning and the End (1960) Chased by the Dogs (1962) Saladin the Victorious (1963) Cairo 30 (1966) Khan El Khalili (1967) Chitchat on the Nile (1971) Karnak (1975) The Guilty (1975) The Beginning and the End (1993) Midaq Alley (1995)