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Five Pounds, is a 1946 Saudi movie, directed by Hassan Helmy, and starring Wedad Hamdy, Mohsen Sarhan, Zouzou Nabil. with a runtime of 100 minutes.
Five Pounds is a whimsical Egyptian fantasy short film that imagines what would happen if a five-pound banknote developed a will of its own. Weary of sitting motionless inside a treasury among other dormant bills, the note decides to escape and venture out into the world. The film uses this playful conceit to gently satirize humanity's complex and often irrational relationship with money — its power, its absurdity, and what it means when currency stops circulating. Light, inventive, and imaginative, Five Pounds is a charming piece of Arabic short cinema that uses a tiny premise to raise quietly big questions.
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