The Barred Road

The Barred Road (Egyptian Arabic: الطريق المسدود, translit. Al-Tareeq al-Masdood) is a 1958 Egyptian drama/romance film.

The Barred Road
The Barred Road VHS cover
Directed bySalah Abouseif
Written byIhsan Abdel Quddous
El Sayed Bedeir
Naguib Mahfouz
Produced byAbdelhalim Nasr
Ittihad Elfananeen
StarringFaten Hamama
Ahmed Mazhar
Release date
22 April 1958
CountryEgypt
LanguageArabic

Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous.[1] The film was co-written by El Sayed Bedeir and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz. It starred Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar. The film received an award from the Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema and was selected one of the top 150 films in Egypt in 1996.[2]

Plot

Faten Hamama plays Fayza, a young student who lives with her family after the death of her father. Left with no money, her mother (Zouzou Mady) is forced to turn her house into an illegal gambling house. Fayza opposes her mother's solution. Munir (Ahmed Mazhar) is a writer who meets Fayza and falls in love with her but she rejects him. Fayza decides to leave to the countryside where she works as a teacher in a small school. Fayza gets into trouble in the school and, desperate and hopeless, decides to walk in her mother's path. Munir convinces Fayza to stop.[2]

Cast

References
  1. Al Aris, Ibrahim. "The Legacy of Salah Abu Seif". Al Jadid Magazine. Retrieved 2007-03-09.
  2. "Al-Tareeq al-Masdood" (in Arabic). Faten Hamama's official website. Retrieved 2007-04-01.
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