''Son of the Nile'' ( translit. Ibn El Nil) is a

1951 Events January * January 4 – Korean War: Third Battle of Seoul – Chinese and North Korean forces capture Seoul for the second time (having lost the Second Battle of Seoul in September 1950). * January 9 – The Government of the Uni ...

Egypt Egypt ( , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a country spanning the Northeast Africa, northeast corner of Africa and Western Asia, southwest corner of Asia via the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to northe ...

ian

drama film In film and television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular ...

directed by

Youssef Chahine Youssef Chahine ( ; 25 January 1926 – 27 July 2008) was an Egyptian film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death. He directed twelve films included in a list of Top 100 Egyptian films published by ...

. It starred

Yehia Chahine Yehia Chahine (, ) (28 July 1917 – 18 March 1994) was an Egyptian film producer and an actor of film and theatre. He is most notable for his role in the Egyptian Cinema's film adaptations of the ''Cairo Trilogy'', a trilogy written by the Nob ...

Faten Hamama Faten Ahmed Hamama (, ; 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity an ...

Mahmoud el-Meliguy Mahmoud el-Meligy (, ; 22 December 1910 – 6 June 1983) was an Egyptian screenwriter and an actor of film, theater, and television. He started his career playing minor roles but achieved stardom in the late 1930s. A popular and award-winnin ...

, and

Shukry Sarhan Mohamed Shoukry El Husseiny Sarhan (13 March 1925 – 19 March 1997, ), better known as Shoukry Sarhan (), was an Egyptian actor. He is regarded as one of the greatest Egyptian actors of all time. Life and career Sarhan was born in El Shar ...

and was chosen as one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions in 1996, during the Egyptian Cinema centennial. The film received an award from the New

Delhi International Film Festival Delhi, officially the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi, is a city and a union territory of India containing New Delhi, the capital of India. Straddling the Yamuna river, but spread chiefly to the west, or beyond its right bank, ...

and was nominated for the Prix International award at the

1952 Cannes Film Festival The 5th Cannes Film Festival took place from 23 April to 10 May 1952. French author Maurice Genevoix served as jury president for the main competition. The Grand Prize of the Festival was awarded, as the highest prize, to ''Othello'' by Orson W ...

and an award in the

Venice International Film Festival The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival (, "International Exhibition of Cinematographic Art of the Venice Biennale") is an annual film festival held in Venice, Italy. It is the world's oldest film festival and one of the ...

Plot

Hemaidah ( shokry sarhan) is a

farmer A farmer is a person engaged in agriculture, raising living organisms for food or raw materials. The term usually applies to people who do some combination of raising field crops, orchards, vineyards, poultry, or other livestock. A farmer ...

who hates country life. He hates working in fields and taking care of the animals in his farm. Though unsatisfied with her, he marries Zebeidah (

), a woman in the same village. He is determined to leave the village, move and live in the city. He plans for his travel and asks his brother to look after his farm and family. In Cairo, Hemaidah falls in the hands of a

gang A gang is a social group, group or secret society, society of associates, friends, or members of a family with a defined leadership and internal organization that identifies with or claims control over Wiktionary:territory#Noun, territory in a ...

, headed by a ruthless

gangster A gangster (informally gangsta) is a criminal who is a member of a gang. Most gangs are considered to be part of organized crime. Gangsters are also called mobsters, a term derived from ''Organized crime, mob'' and the suffix ''wikt:-ster, -st ...

. Not wishing to risk his life, he is forced to work with the gang and help them in their crimes. He is introduced to theft and harlotry, and one day the police arrest the gang. Hemaidah spends his time in

prison A prison, also known as a jail, gaol, penitentiary, detention center, correction center, correctional facility, or remand center, is a facility where Prisoner, people are Imprisonment, imprisoned under the authority of the State (polity), state ...

and returns to his village after his release, regretting that he had left it.

Cast

as Hemaidah *

as Zebeidah *

as Hemaidah's brother, Ibrahim *

Mahmoud El-Meliguy Mahmoud el-Meligy (, ; 22 December 1910 – 6 June 1983) was an Egyptian screenwriter and an actor of film, theater, and television. He started his career playing minor roles but achieved stardom in the late 1930s. A popular and award-winnin ...

as the gang boss *

Nader Galal Nader Galal (; 29 January 1941 – December 2014) was an Egyptian television and film director. He was best known for directing ''El-Irhaby'' ('' The Terrorist'', 1994), ''Salam Ya Sahby'' (''Goodbye my friend''), and the ''Bekhit wa Adila'' ser ...

as Hemaidah's son

References

website
abn alnayl 's official site. Retrieved on January 4, 2021.

External links

* 1951 films 1950s Arabic-language films 1951 drama films Films directed by Youssef Chahine Egyptian drama films Egyptian black-and-white films 1950s Egyptian films {{Egypt-film-stub

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