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The White Dress (1974)

The White Dress poster
Original title
الرداء الأبيض
Directed by
Hassan Ramzy
Genre
melodrama
Country
Egypt
Runtime
1h 35m
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A woman in Egypt faces romantic and emotional struggles. The story centers on her personal relationships and the societal pressures she endures.

melodramaticemotionalromantictragicsomberdatedintense

What happens

Al-Ridaʼ al-Abyaḍ (Arabic: الرداء الابيض), known as The White Gown in English, is a 1975 Egyptian Arabic-language Egyptian film directed by Hassan Ramzi and co-written by Nairuz Abdel Malek. It sold 61 million tickets in the Soviet Union, making it the seventh highest-grossing foreign film ever in the Soviet Union and the highest-grossing Egyptian film of all time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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