Akwa min al hayat

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Akwa min al hayat, is a 1960 Egyptian movie, directed by Muhammed Kamel Hassan Al Mohami, and starring Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Emad Hamdy, Kamal Al-Shenawy. with a runtime of 80 minutes.

Overview

Akwa min al Hayat is an Egyptian social drama that centers on an employee who marries a wealthy widow with a young daughter from her previous marriage. When the couple have a son together, the husband's jealousy over his wife's devotion to her daughter festers into something dangerous — he begins secretly plotting to poison the girl. In a bitter and unexpected twist, his own son dies instead, and the mother finds herself falsely accused of her child's murder. A tense and morally charged drama about jealousy, betrayal, and the catastrophic consequences of a plan gone wrong.

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