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The Open Door (1963 film)
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Wikipedia article
'The Open Door' (Arabic: , translit. 'El-Bab el-Maftuh') is a 1963 Egyptian drama film directed by Henry Barakat and starring Faten Hamama, Mahmoud Moursy, and Saleh Selim. The film is based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Egyptian writer Latifa al-Zayyat. Dream Makers on the Nile: A Portrait of Egyptian Cinema - Page 29 =977424429X
Mustafa Darwish - 1998 ... She was at her best in films like Du'aa al-Karawan (Call of the Curlew, 1959), adapted from a novel by Taha Hussein; al-Bab al-Maftuh (The Open Door, 1963), from a story by Latifa al-Zayat; and al-Haram (The Sin, 1964), from a story by Yusef Idris. The Open Door is set in the city. The heroine, by ...Arab Observer - Issues 172-184 - Page 152
1963 THE OPEN DOOR The last twenty years have witnessed a radical change in the position and outlook of women in Egypt. From a docile chattel owned and ordered about by ... The director Henry Barakat, gives us some interesting symbolism in his photography and montage. The piercing beat of the drum at the celebration of a loveless marriage is immediately followed by a shot in the Suez Canal area where the heroine's brother...Oliver Leaman Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film 1134662521
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Some of Barakat's highly praised films were literary adaptations, such as the patriotic Fi Baytinna Rajul/ A Man in our House (1961) and the quasi-feminist al-Bab al-Maftuh / The Open Door (1963). Barakat discovered, moreover, the Lebanese singer Sabah (singer) and presented her for the first time in al-Qalb Lahu Wahid/ The Heart Loves Only One in 1945. He directed in Lebanon two of the most successful musicals, starring the Rahbani Brothers and the singer Fayruz (singer) Safar Barlak (1967) ..
Plot
Known in English as "The Open Door", another great movie about women's right in their different role and life and their struggle between her father with his old style and her husband that doesn't understand her.
Cast
*Faten Hamama as Laila
*Mahmoud Mousry as Fouad
* Saleh Selim as Hussain
* Shouweikar as Gamila
* Hasan Youssef as Isam
References
Category:1963 films
Category:1960s Arabic-language films
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