The Ring Seller
7.4
In a peaceful village, the mayor, seeing that the population is bored with tranquility, invents the mystical figure of Rajeh, and tells stories to villagers about the exploits of Rajeh, who kills and maims and steals. One day the mayor tells the villagers that Rajeh is heading to the village itself and they better be careful. Two smart men notice that the mayor was lying and that it is all his imagination. So they go on making good on the fictitious person and steal money and assault the mayor in the dark saying that they were Rajeh. Eventually, an old man with the name of Rajeh arrives in the village, amid public fears. Then it became obvious that Rajeh was merely a seller of rings for weddings and he wanted to marry his son to Rima, the mayor's niece. The two bad guys willingly go to jail for making use of the mayor's joke.
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Cast
16 people
Fairuz
Rima
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Nasri Shamseddine
El Moukhtar
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Mays Al-Reem
Lulu
Youssef Chahine
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Cairo Station
Assi Rahbani
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Safar Barlek
Daughter of the Guardian
Naser el-Attasy
Joseph Azar
Rajeh
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I Dream of Jeannie
Joseph Nassif
Fadlo
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Safar Barlek
Elie Choueiri
Eid
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Safar Barlek
Daughter of the Guardian
Phelemone Wehbe
Sabeh
Mansour Rahbani
Makhoul
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Safar Barlek
Daughter of the Guardian
Salwa Haddad
Zbayda
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Safar Barlek
William Hasswani
Al Shaweesh
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Youssef Chahine Director · Assi Rahbani Writer Mansour Rahbani Writer
First release January 2, 1965 · Produced in Lebanon · Original title بياع الخواتم
Production
Phenicia Films
Production
Lebanon
Produced in
Languages
Original title
بياع الخواتم
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
Egypt · January 2, 1965
Theatrical
No release date listed for United States.
France
December 20, 1973
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