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العذراء والشعر الأبيض (1983)

العذراء والشعر الأبيض poster
Directed by
Hussein Kamal
Country
Egypt

How it feels

A woman is divorced by her husband because she cannot have children, so she adopts a young girl. As the girl grows into a teenager, she falls in love with the woman's ex-husband, who rejects her advances, leading to a series of conflicts.

tensemelancholicslow-burnatmosphericsomberemotionally chargedintimatedramatic

What happens

العذراء والشعر الأبيض هو فيلم مصري أنتج عام 1983، من بطولة نبيلة عبيد ومحمود عبد العزيز ومن إخراج حسين كمال. تدور أحداث الفيلم حول امرأة يطلقها زوجها لكونها عاقر (لا تنجب)، فتتبنى فتاة ولكن لم يكن في حسبانها أن الفتاة ستغرم في زوجها بعد وصولها لسن المراهقة الذي يقوم هو بصدها وتتوالى الأحداث. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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