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The Tale of a Girl Named Marmar, is a 1972 Egyptian movie, directed by Henry Barakat, and starring Soheir El Morshedy, Salah Mansour, Mahmoud Yassin. with a runtime of 106 minutes.
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The Tale of a Girl Named Marmar is an Egyptian social drama following Marmar, a young woman who leaves her hometown of Beni Suef to enroll in the Faculty of Girls in Cairo, staying with her aunt's family. Her arrival stirs tension when her cousin Ahmed develops romantic feelings for her; his father discovers them together and demands she leave. Marmar's own family responds by hastily arranging her marriage to the wealthy businessman Gadallah, stripping her of any agency over her future. The film offers a sensitive portrayal of the pressures young Egyptian women face at the intersection of education, family expectations, and imposed marriage.
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