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Wikipedia article




'Our Blessed Aunt' (, transliterated as 'Sett al-Settat') is an Egyptian drama film released on June 29, 1998. The film is directed and written by Raafat el-Mehi and stars Laila Elwi, Maged el-Masry, and Magda el-Khatib. The story concerns a young Abdelaziz, who returns to Cairo from another unspecified Arab country. Coming back to his aunt Fakiha's apartment, he discovers that it has become a brothel run by a madam who denies that she is related to him.

Cast



* Laila Elwi (Lola)

* Maged el-Masry (Abdelaziz)

* Hassan Hosny (Hassan el-Demerdash)

* Magda El-Khatib (Basant Abdel-Al/Fakiha al-Sharnoubi/Sitt al-Satat)

* Entessar (Zeinab/Dudu)

* Ali Hassanein (Mamoun Hafez)

* Mukhles al-Buhairi (Major General Azzouz)

* Saeed al-Saleh (Fawzy, a paralegal)

* Ahmed Rizk (Hamada, a soldier)

* Abdulrahim El-Tanir (minister)

* Mohaja Abdelrahman (Sheikha Hosina)

* Diaa Abdel Khalek (taxi driver)

* Nashat Talaat

* Ahmed Saeed

* Najah Fahim

* Iman Wahba

* Youssef Abdelmaqsoud

* Hazem Fouad

* Laila Abdelhakim

* Hazem Mamdouh

* Jihan Wehbe

* Laila Helmy

* Moushira

* Azza Fouad

* Ismat Kamal

* Ahmed Samir

* Rasha Fouad

* Ahmed Bahloul

Synopsis



The comedy's protagonist Abdelaziz (Maged el-Masry) returns to Cairo from working in another unnamed Arab country. Going to the apartment of his aunt Fakiha (Magda el-Khatib), he discovers that it has become a brothel. Lola (Laila Elwi), one of the prostitutes there, tries to convince him to marry her. He has them make the place a pension, but they carry on their old profession anyway. Everyone is arrested, and Abdelaziz discovers a big surprise.

Legacy



Critic Nisreen al-Rashidi cited the film among others on the website 3ain, remarking that:

Egyptian cinema has presented women and dealt with their problems throughout its history, even addressing them by name, sometimes as mara [woman] and sometimes as sitt [lady]Here we monitor ten films using the word sitt from the earliest days of the silver screen to today.



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