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A Love Crime (1955)

A Love Crime poster
Original title
جريمة حب
Directed by
Atef Salem
Genre
drama, crime
Country
Egypt
Runtime
1h 42m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A lawyer named Jalal blames his wife for losing a major case. He starts an affair with his client who later gets murdered, and the wife becomes the prime suspect.

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What happens

A Love Crime (Arabic: جريمة حب, transliterated as Garymet Hob) an Egyptian film released on January 1, 1955. The film is directed by Atef Salem, features a screenplay by Mahmoud Sobhy based on the novel by Amin Yousseff Ghurab, and stars Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Emad Hamdy, Hind Rostom, and Salah Mansour. The protagonist, a lawyer named Jalal, loses an important case and believes his wife's negligence is the reason. He launches into an affair with his beautiful client, who is murdered, leaving the wife as a suspect. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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