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Whose Son Is He, is a 1980 Egyptian movie, directed by Hasan El-Saifi, and starring Ahmed Abu Abiya, Younes Shalaby, Saeed Saleh. with a runtime of 101 minutes.
Whose Son Is He is an Egyptian social drama that unfolds through a chain of devastating consequences. A young woman, pregnant and terrified of her family's reaction, flees in secret and gives birth alone — only to be tracked down and killed by her brother Hamdan in a brutal act of so-called honor. Her newborn is found by two young men, Mukhtar and Mustafa, who make the quiet, compassionate decision to raise the child as their own. Meanwhile, Hamdan refuses to let the story end there, launching a relentless pursuit of the man who seduced his sister and sparked the tragedy. The film is a searching exploration of honor culture, guilt, and the different kinds of justice that different people seek — and the orphaned child caught in the middle of it all.
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