The Final Encounter (1953)
- Original title
- اللقاء الأخير
- Directed by
- El-Sayed Ziada
- Genre
- drama, romance
- Country
- Kingdom of Egypt
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A young woman runs away to marry a man her father disapproves of. Her husband goes missing after an accident and she believes he has died. When she finds out she is pregnant, she leaves her baby with a nurse and goes to Europe, but her husband eventually returns without his memory.
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What happens
The Final Encounter (Arabic: اللقاء الأخير, transliterated as El-lekhaa el-akhir) is an Egyptian film released on June 1, 1953. The film is directed by El-Sayed Ziada, features a screenplay co-written with his brother Mahrous, and stars Baadriya Raafat (in her last cinema role), Emad Hamdy, Mohsen Sarhan, Zahrat El-Ola, Mahmoud el-Meliguy, and Zeinat Sedki. The story centers on a girl who elopes to marry a lover of whom her father does not approve, after which the lover goes missing in an accident and she thinks that he has died. Discovering that she is pregnant, the ostensible widow leaves the child in the care of a nurse and travels to Europe, only for the husband to return with amnesia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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