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Lend Me Three Pounds, is a 1939 Egyptian movie, directed by Togo Mizrahi, and starring Ali AlKassar, Bahiga El Mahdy, Zaki Ibrahim. with a runtime of 110 minutes.
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Lend Me Three Pounds is an Egyptian social comedy film following Osman Abdel Basit, a kind-hearted Nubian school worker who faces a seemingly simple but impossible task: raising three pounds before his mortgage deadline — or losing his home. What unfolds is a warmly comic odyssey as Osman moves from one odd job to the next, chasing every opportunity and chance encounter Cairo throws his way in pursuit of this tiny but life-defining sum. The film's charm lies in its affectionate portrayal of a dignified man navigating financial precarity with humor and grace. It is a small-scale human comedy that finds its richness in the very modesty of its stakes, celebrating the resilience and ingenuity of ordinary Egyptians.
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