A Journey of Suffering

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A Journey of Suffering, is a 1972 Egyptian movie, directed by Rida Myassar, and starring Nadia Arslan, Tawfiq Al-Deqen, Hani Fawzi. with a runtime of 107 minutes.

Overview

A Journey of Suffering is a stylized Arabic horror melodrama that explores the terrible price of a cold-blooded crime. A man orchestrates the murder of his wife in order to be free to live with his lover, believing he has escaped consequences. But the wife's ghost refuses to let him rest, returning to haunt him with an intensity that transforms his hoped-for paradise into an unbearable torment. Shot with a heightened visual style befitting its Gothic themes, the film functions as a morality tale about guilt, obsession, and the impossibility of outrunning one's crimes — a supernatural reckoning dressed in the conventions of classic Arabic melodrama.

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