Smooth Hands (1963)

Original title

الأيدي الناعمة

Directed by

Mahmoud Zulfikar

Genre

drama film, comedy film, musical film, romance film

Country

Egypt

Runtime

2h 17m

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

After the 1952 revolution strips him of his land, a former aristocrat struggles to accept that he must now work for a living. He meets an unemployed Arabic doctorate who shares his pride, and together they try to adjust to the new socialist reality in Egypt.

lightheartedwryslightly satiricalobservantgentlecomedicdatedhuman

What happens

Soft Hands (Arabic: الأيدي الناعمة, translit.al-aydi al-nā'ima) is a 1963 Egyptian comedy film directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar. It is based on a play of the same name by Egyptian playwright Tawfiq al-Hakim (1953). It features an ensemble cast that includes Sabah, Salah Zulfikar, Ahmed Mazhar, Mariam Fakhr Eddine and Laila Taher. The film was entered into the 14th Berlin International Film Festival. The film a member of the Top 100 Egyptian films list. The plot involves a formerly landed aristocrat dispossessed by the 1952 Egyptian Revolution. The plot follows the aristocrat's struggle coming to terms with the reality of needing to work for a living, after being stripped of all landownership. He meets a similarly jobless doctorate in the Arabic language, who, like him, is not willing to accept a job below his stature. Both must adjust to the new social and political realities in a new Nasserite socialist Egypt. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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