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Rayya and Sekina

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Poster for the movie "Rayya and Sekina"

Rayya and Sekina (1952)

95 min - Crime, Drama, Thriller - 23 February 1952
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In Alexandria a terrifying phenomenon of the disappearance of women, spreads terror in the city. Police work to unravel its secrets. Officer Ahmed is preparing a plan to uncover who's behind it and it turns out to be the gang of Raya and Sakina, who were targeting women to steal their jewelry.

Director:  Salah Abu Seif
Writers:  Lotfi Othman, Salah Abu Seif, ElSayed Bedir
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A Woman's Youth (1956)

126 min - Drama, Musical - 9 January 1956
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A rural mother sells her only cow in order to enroll her son, an imam (Shukri Sarhan) at Dar al-Uloom College. When an imam arrives in Cairo, he rents a room in the Citadel area from a domineering woman named Shafa'at (Tahiya Karioka) who is fascinated by his youth and vitality and lures him into practicing vice with her. As a result, he stumbles in his studies and health. At this time, a girl whom she and her father knew from a young age helps him to get rid of all the corruption in which he lives, and her father advises him to stay away from intercessions, but the intercessions plots against him in an attempt to stay with her...

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شباب امرأة (1956)

126 min - Drama - 9 January 1956
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Imam was a poor young man who had come from his village to complete his higher education in Cairo. He rented a small room from a shafhat who was the owner of a grain mill. She was attracted to the imam and they had an affair, but he was really in love with Salwa, who was the daughter of an acquaintance of his father in Cairo. Shafhat threatened him and called the police, accusing him of stealing her jewellery. Description from the University of Texas Library

Director:  Salah Abu Seif
Writers:  Salah Abu Seif, ElSayed Bedir, Amin Youssef Ghorab
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