The Criminal (1978 film)

1978 Egyptian film

The Criminal

المجرم
Directed by|

* Salah Abu Seif
* Ismail Hassan (assistant director)

Starring|

* Shams al-Baroudi
* Hassan Youssef
* Amina Rizk
* Mohamed Awad
* Hamdy Ahmed
* Soheir El-Barouni
* Gamal Ismail

Cinematography| Mahmoud Nasr
Music by| Gamal Salama

Release date

* September 3, 1978 (1978-09-03)

Country| Egypt
Language| Arabic

The Criminal (Arabic: المجرم transliterated as Shasha’a) is an Egyptian film released on September 3, 1978. The film is directed by Salah Abu Seif and based on the novel Thérèse Raquin by Émile Zola.[1] It is the second adaptation by Abu Seif of this work he first adapted as Your Day Will Come, released in 1951.[2]

## Synopsis

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The idiot Zaghloul (Mohamed Awad) marries his cousin Insaf (Shams al-Baroudi), and they live with his mother (Amina Rizk), the owner of the public bath. Zaghloul's colleague Mounir (Hassan Youssef), a gambler, comes to seize the family fortune to feed his habit and sets up Zaghloul to drown, claiming falsely not to know how to swim to save him. Then Mounir asks for Insaf's hand in marriage and receives it reluctantly. The truth about Mounir's misdeeds comes to light, and he abuses Insaf. Hassouna (Hamdy Ahmed), a neighbor, becomes suspicious of him and comes to learn of the unsavory qualities, including his lie about being unable to swim.

## External links

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* El Cinema page
* Dhliz page
* Karohat page[usurped]

## References

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1. ^ Kassem, Mahmoud (2006). موسوعة الأفلام الروائية في مصر والعالم العربي ("Arabic Movies Encyclopedia"), vol. 2. Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization. pp. 462–463.
2. ^ Shadi, Ali Abu (2004). قائع السينما المصرية، 1895—2002 ("Chronicle of Egyptian Cinema, 1895—2002"). Cairo: General Egyptian Book Organization. p. 239.

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Films directed by Salah Abu Seif

* The Adventures of Antar and Abla (1948)
* Your Day Will Come (1951)
* Love Humiliates (1952)
* The Monster (1954)
* The Leech (1956)
* The Tough (1957)
* Sleepless (1957)
* The Barred Road (1958)
* This Is Love (1958)
* I Am Free (1959)
* Between Heaven and Earth (1959)
* The Beginning and the End (1960)
* The Sun Will Never Set (1961)
* Letter from an Unknown Woman (1962)
* Cairo 30 (1966)
* The Second Wife (1967)
* Three Women (1968)
* Malatily Bathhouse (1973)
* The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
* The Criminal (1978)
* Al Qadisiyya (1981)
* War in the Land of Egypt (1991)

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