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The Second Wife, is a 1967 Egyptian movie, directed by Salah Abu Seif, and starring Soad Hosny, Shoukry Sarhan, Sanaa Gamil. with a runtime of 112 minutes.
The Second Wife is a landmark Egyptian dramatic realism film set in a rural village dominated by the iron will of Atman, the tyrannical wealthy mayor played by Salah Mansour. Unable to produce a male heir with his wife Hafiza (Sanaa Gamil), Atman resolves to marry Fatima (Soad Hosny), the woman who serves in his home — despite her being already married to Abu El-Ela (Shokry Sarhan). With the complicit blessing of the village sheikh, who bends religious rulings to the mayor's desires, Fatima is forcibly divorced and installed as a second wife against her will. Cornered and powerless, she turns to cunning as her only tool of resistance. A cornerstone of Egyptian social cinema and its critique of rural injustice and patriarchal abuse.
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