The Second Wife

At a glance

The Second Wife, is a 2013 Egyptian series, and starring Ayten Amer, Amr Waked, Amr Abdel Gelil. running for 1 season.

Overview

The Second Wife is an Egyptian drama film set in a rural village where the peasantry lives under the unchallenged authority of a powerful and ruthless mayor. When the mayor — frustrated by his wife's inability to bear children — sets his sights on Fatma, the wife of a simple farmer named Abu Al-Ela, he uses every instrument of coercion at his disposal to force her husband into divorce. The film is an unflinching examination of power, vulnerability, and the mechanisms of oppression in traditional rural Egypt, told with a directness that makes its social critique as emotionally resonant as it is politically clear.

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