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The Sweetness of Love (1952)

The Sweetness of Love poster
Original title
يا حلاوة الحب
Directed by
Hussein Fawzi
Genre
comedy, romance, music
Country
Kingdom of Egypt
Runtime
1h 50m
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A romantic story follows people who find themselves in a situation inspired by a classic European film. The characters navigate love and misunderstandings in a 1950s Egyptian setting.

romanticlightheartedwhimsicalold-fashionedplayfulsentimentalgentleupbeat

What happens

The Sweetness of Love (Arabic: يا حلاوة الحب, transliterated as Ya Halawaat al-Hob) is an Egyptian film released in 1952. The film is based on the Franco-German film, A Night in Paradise, released in 1932 in German and the following year as Une nuit au paradis in French. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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