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''A Wife from Paris'' (, translit. ''Zawga Mn Paris'') is a 1966 Egyptian
romantic comedy Romantic comedy (also known as romcom or rom-com) is a sub-genre of comedy and Romance novel, romance fiction, focusing on lighthearted, humorous plot lines centered on romantic ideas, such as how true love is able to surmount all obstacles. Ro ...
film directed by
Atef Salem Atef Salem (; 23 July 1927 – 30 July 2002) was an Egyptian film director. He directed 32 films between 1954 and 2001. Many of his films were scripted by the novelist Naguib Mahfouz Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (, ; ...
. in arabic


Cast

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Salah Zulfikar Salah El-Din Ahmed Mourad Zulfikar (, ; 18 January 1926 – 22 December 1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer. He started his career as a Egyptian National Police, police officer, before becoming an actor in 1956. He is regarded as one o ...
as Dr. Wagih * Roushdy Abaza as Nagi *
Fouad El Mohandes Fouad Zaki El Mohandes ; known as Fouad El Mohandes (or Fuad el-Mohandess; ; September 6, 1924 – September 16, 2006) was an Egyptian stage and screen actor, and star from the 1950s specializing mostly in comedy roles in dozens of theater, ci ...
as Daoud * Nabila Ebeid as Samia * Karima El Sherif (Dr. Wagih’s wife, also named Samia) * Ahmed al-Haddad (Othman, a professor) * Amin El-Heinedy (Sheikh Hawash, the
Al-Masih ad-Dajjal Al-Masih ad-Dajjal (), otherwise referred to simply as the Dajjal, is an evil figure in Islamic eschatology who will pretend to be the promised Messiah and later claim to be God in Islam, God, appearing before the Judgement Day in Islam#Destructi ...
or Muslim Antichrist) * Abdel Ghani Nagdi (Abdel Dayem) * Hussein Ismail (Imran) * Hassan Atla (delivery truck owner) * Sayed Abdullah (mayor) *
Poussi Poussi, Poussy or Boussy () real name Sarvenaz Moustafa Adri (; born 26 November 1953) is a Cairo-born Egyptian actress. Filmography * ''Zawga Min Paris'' (''" A Wife From Paris "'', 1966) (Arabic: زوجة من باريس) * ''Shey Min El ...
(Abdel Dayem’s daughter) * Ibrahim Hechmat (Badr, one of the men at the
oasis In ecology, an oasis (; : oases ) is a fertile area of a desert or semi-desert environmentAlwiya Gamil Alwiya Gamil () was an Egyptian actress of Lebanese origin whose real name was Elisabeth Khalil Majdalani. She was born in Lebanon on December 15, 1910 and immigrated with her parents to Egypt. Career Gamil began her career at the age of 15 when ...
(Dr. Wagih’s mother-in-law) * Eskandar Mansy (station official) * Mary Bay Bay


Synopsis

An
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hosts a small town in the
New Valley Governorate New Valley (or El Wadi El Gedid ( , )) is a governorate of Egypt. It is in the southwestern part of the country, in the south of Egypt Western Desert (part of the Sahara Desert), between the Nile, northern Sudan, and southeastern Libya. Comp ...
. As the
1952 Egyptian revolution The Egyptian revolution of 1952, also known as the 1952 coup d'état () and the 23 July Revolution (), was a period of profound political, economic, and societal change in Egypt. On 23 July 1952, the revolution began with the toppling of King ...
brews, Dr. Wagih flees there, but his wife Samia refuses to follow him under pressure from her mother. Samia returns to
Cairo Cairo ( ; , ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Egypt and the Cairo Governorate, being home to more than 10 million people. It is also part of the List of urban agglomerations in Africa, largest urban agglomeration in Africa, L ...
, and Dr. Wagih is left to get to know his new neighbors. These include Nagi, an engineer embittered by a woman’s betrayal, and Daoud, a principal and head teacher at the local
primary school A primary school (in Ireland, India, the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Trinidad and Tobago, Jamaica, South Africa, and Singapore), elementary school, or grade school (in North America and the Philippines) is a school for primary ...
looking for a wife who finds one in town. Samia returns to live with her husband, and Nagi marries a new social worker who charms away his surliness and also happens to be named Samia.


See also

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Cinema of Egypt The Egyptian film industry is today based mainly in Cairo, which is sometimes referred to as Hollywood on the Nile, Hollywood of the Middle East or Hollywood of the East, despite having its beginnings in the city of Alexandria in the early 20t ...
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Lists of Egyptian films The following is a list of Egyptian films. The year order is split by decade. For an alphabetical list of films currently on Wikipedia, see :Egyptian films. Pre 1920s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010 ...
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Salah Zulfikar filmography Salah Zulfikar (1926–1993) was an Egyptian actor and film producer, who appeared in over 100 feature films, several short films, stage, television and radio serials. Zulfikar's film debut was in 1956 in a leading role becoming one of the most ...
* List of Egyptian films of 1966 *
List of Egyptian films of the 1960s Below are lists of films produced in Egypt in the 1960s. * List of Egyptian films of 1960 * List of Egyptian films of 1961 * List of Egyptian films of 1962 * List of Egyptian films of 1963 *List of Egyptian films of 1964 *List of Egyptian films o ...


References


External links

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A Wife from Paris on elcinema.com

A Wife from Paris on Dhliz.com

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1960s Arabic-language films 1966 films 1966 romantic comedy films Egyptian romantic comedy films Films shot in Egypt 1960s Egyptian films Arabic-language romantic comedy films {{romantic-comedy-film-stub