Sleepless (1957)

Original title

لا أنام

Directed by

Salah Abu Seif

Genre

drama film, romance film, melodrama

Country

Egypt

Runtime

2h 07m

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 14 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young woman from a broken home becomes obsessed with her father and tries to sabotage his romantic relationships. The film follows her complicated emotional journey and the impact on those around her.

melodramaticemotionaltensepsychologically intensefamilialdramaticclassic

What happens

Sleepless (Arabic: لا أنام, translit. La Anam) is a 1957 Egyptian melodrama film. The film follows the intricate story of Nadia Lutfi, a daughter of divorced parents who suffers from Electra complex, which drives her to intervene in her father's relationships. Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous. The film, which is currently ranked the 29th best Egyptian film by the cinema committee of the Supreme Council of Culture in Cairo, starred Faten Hamama, Yehia Chahine, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Omar Sharif, Emad Hamdy, Hind Rostom and Rushdy Abaza. It was released on DVD as part of the Egyptian Cinema Classics film collection. Sleepless is one of the ten first Egyptian colored films. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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