Underplayed Gems

The Final Encounter (1953)

The Final Encounter poster
Original title
اللقاء الأخير
Directed by
El-Sayed Ziada
Genre
drama, romance
Country
Kingdom of Egypt
Runtime
1h 40m
Elsewhere
IMDb
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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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