Local & Sweet (1950)

Original title

بلدي وخفة

Directed by

Hussein Fawzi

Genre

comedy, drama, music

Country

Kingdom of Egypt

Runtime

2h 10m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman named Hanuma wants to escape poverty, even though she is engaged to a poor man named Mahrous. A wealthy man named Khaled helps Mahrous advance his career but then falls in love with Hanuma.

romanticdramaticmusicallight-heartedtenseemotionalclassicegyptian

What happens

Local & Sweet (Arabic: بلدي وخفة, transliterated Balady wa khifat) is an Egyptian musical drama film released on April 2, 1950. The film is directed by Hussein Fawzi, features a screenplay co-written by Fawzi and Hassan Tawfiq, and stars Naima Akef and Saad Abdel Wahab. The heroine, Hanuma, tries to escape poverty by any means despite her engagement to the penniless Mahrous. Khaled enters their lives and helps Mahrous move ahead in his career, presumably easing the potential couple's progress, but Khaled falls in love with Hanuma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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