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أريد حبا وحنانا (1978)

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Country
Egypt

How it feels

A woman named Mona is engaged to an engineer named Hussein but hesitates to marry when her first love Samir returns from abroad. She discovers Samir is an Israeli spy and decides to help the authorities catch his espionage network.

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What happens

أريد حبا وحنانا هو فيلم مصري اجتماعي بوليسي من إنتاج سنة 1978. الفيلم من إخراج نجدي حافظ ومن كتابة ضحى نجدي. بعد ارتباط منى بالمهندس حسين، تتردد في قرار زواجها إثر عودة حبها الأول سمير من الخارج، ولكن يتضح أن سمير عميلا لإسرائيل فتقرر منى مساعدة العدالة في القبض على شبكة التجسس التي يقودها سمير. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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