Samara (1956 film)

Not to be confused with the house built in the same year, Samara (house).

1956 Egyptian film

Samara

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

Release date

* March 8, 1956 (1956-03-08) (Egypt)

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).

## References

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1. ^ a b "Movie: Samara (1956)", ElCinema.com, retrieved 2023-04-21
2. ^ "وفاة المخرج المصري حسن الصيفي" [The death of the Egyptian director Hassan El-Saifi]. Al Jazeera (in Arabic). Retrieved 2023-04-21.
3. ^ مصطفى, درويش،; رفيق, صبان، (2008). سنوات الذهبية في السينما المصرية: سينما كايرو، ١٩٣٦-١٩٦٧ [The Golden Years in Egyptian Cinema: Cairo Cinema, 1936–1967]. American University in Cairo Press. p. 1934\. ISBN 978-977-416-173-5.
4. ^ a b "Samarah". Kinorium. Retrieved 2023-04-21.
5. ^ قاسم, محمود (2017-01-01). الوجه والقناع.. أشرار السينما المصرية [The Face and the Mask.. The Villains of Egyptian Cinema] (in Arabic). وكالة الصحافة العربية. p. 1935.

## External links

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* Samara at IMDb

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