A poor girl (Mona) who works as a simple employee at a bank and provides her family. Under the pressure of need and illness of her father and the pressure of her mother, which insists on her to increase her income, she gets a wealthy old businessman to love her. An engineer (Adel), who works in the company of her lover (Abdo) reveals his love, she convinces him to resign and build his own independent company and give him jewelry as a capital and stand by him and encourage him and cut ties with Abdo. Will their love story continue?
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Faten Hamama
Mona
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Mahmood Yaseen
Adel
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Henry Barakat
Ihsan Abdel Quddous
Wahid Farid
Ramses Naguib
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abn albalad
Emad Hamdy
Hosni
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Adrift on the Nile
Mother of the Bride
Poussi
Nana Hosni
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The Piper
Salah Nazmi
Abdulkarim
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Karima ElSherif
Sadia
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Fatheia Shahin
Nana's mother
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Salama Elias
Mona's father
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Arouss el Nil
Henry Barakat Director · Ihsan Abdel Quddous Writer Wahid Farid Cinematographer
First release September 13, 1971 · Produced in Egypt · Original title الخيط الرفيع
Production
Egypt
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Original title
الخيط الرفيع
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
Egypt · September 13, 1971
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No release date listed for United States.
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