''Al-Yateematain'' ( ar, اليتيمتين, ''The Two Orphans'') is a 1949 Egyptian

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film written by

Abo El Seoud El Ebiary Abo El Seoud El Ebiary (also credited as ''Aboul Soud Ibiary'', ''Abu Seoud El-Ibiary''; ar, أبو السعود الإبياري) (November 9, 1910 – March 17, 1969) was an Egyptian comic screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and journalist. ...

directed by Hassan Al Imam starring Egyptian

actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lit ...

Faten Hamama Faten Ahmed Hamama ( ar, فاتن حمامه ; 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She was the first wife of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was o ...

. The film was based on the play '' The Two Orphans'' by

Adolphe d'Ennery Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery or Dennery (17 June 181125 January 1899) was a French playwright and novelist. Life Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe. He obtained his first success in collaboration with Charles Desnoyer in ''Émile, ou le ...

and

Eugène Cormon Pierre-Étienne Piestre, known as Eugène Cormon (5 May 1810 – March 1903), was a French dramatist and librettist. He used his mother's name, Cormon, during his career. Cormon wrote dramas, comedies and, from the 1840s, libretti; around 15 ...

Plot

Hamama portrays the role of Neimat, a young girl who loses her sight due to a wrong usage of

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as eye drops, and who is exploited later by a gangster who forces her to be a beggar in the streets.

Cast

Souraya Helmy Soraya ( fa, ثریا) is a feminine Persian name. It is derived from the Arabic name for the Pleiades star cluster, ''Thurayya'' ( ar, ثريّة). The name is also popular in Europe due to its association with Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiar ...

* Negma Ibrahim

External links

* 1949 films 1940s Arabic-language films 1949 drama films Films about orphans Egyptian films based on plays Egyptian drama films Egyptian black-and-white films Films directed by Hassan al-Imam {{Egypt-film-stub