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Marriage on Air, is a 1976 Egyptian movie, directed by Ahmed Tharwat, and starring Farid Shawqy, Adel Emam, Nahed Sherif. with a runtime of 93 minutes.
Marriage on Air is an Egyptian romantic comedy that spins a clever premise around a young woman's bid for freedom. Amira, fed up with her rigid and controlling father, seizes an unlikely escape route when she learns that Gharib — an employee in her father's household — has received a letter from his American friend Fekry asking him to arrange a proxy marriage to a suitable bride back home. Amira volunteers herself for the role, calculating that a marriage to a man living overseas is the quickest path out from under her father's thumb. What unfolds is a fizzy comedy of errors as the proxy arrangement spirals in directions no one planned for, mixing mistaken identities, romantic complications, and the timeless Egyptian comedic tradition of schemes that develop minds of their own.
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