Samara | |
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Arabic | سمارة |
Directed by | Hasan El-Saifi |
Starring | Taheyya Kariokka, Mahmoud Ismail, Muhsen Sarhan, Mahmoud Al Meleji, Mohamed El Sebai |
Color process | black and white |
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Country | Egypt |
Language | Arabic |
Samara (Arabic: سمارة) also known as Samarah, is a 1956 Egyptian musical action drama film, by director Hasan El-Saifi.[1][2][3] Starring in the film are Taheyya Kariokka, Mahmoud Ismail, Muhsen Sarhan, Mohamed El Sebai, and Mahmoud Al Meleji.[4][5]
The plot of the film is about love and crime. A drug smuggler named Sultan (Mahmoud Ismail) fulls in love with a dancer named Samarah (Taheyya Kariokka), and she has no family.[1] He marries her and she starts to work with him and his gang in the drug trade.[4] One of the people in the gang is arrested by the police, causing a disruption for the remaining gang members.
It is one of the films listed on the Bibliotheca Alexandrina's 100 Greatest Egyptian Films (2006).