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Cairo 30, is a 1966 Egyptian movie, directed by Salah Abu Seif, and starring Soad Hosny, Hamdy Ahmed, Abdel Aziz Mekwi. with a runtime of 130 minutes.
Cairo 30 is a landmark Egyptian drama film adapted from Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz's novel of the same name. Starring Hamdi Ahmed, Suad Husni, and Ahmed Mazhar, the film follows Mahgoub Abd El-Daem, an impoverished young man from Upper Egypt who arrives in Cairo desperate to rise above his circumstances. When his friend Salem Al-Ikhshidi offers him a government job and a wife — Ihsan, the mistress of the powerful Qasem Bey — in exchange for turning a blind eye to her continued relationship with the bey, Mahgoub accepts without hesitation. A searing examination of moral compromise, opportunism, and the corrupting power of social ambition set against the Cairo of the 1930s, directed with unflinching realism.
Cairo 30 is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Salāḥ Abu Seif, and based on Naguib Mahfouz's 1945 novel Modern Cairo. 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.
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