Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.
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Cast
16 people
Soad Hosny
Baheya
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Mahmoud Abdel Aziz
Ashraf
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El Keif
Laila Fawzy
Eqbal
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Elsetat Afaret
Tawfiq Al-Deqen
Baheya's father
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Ragaa Hussein
Nossa
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I want to get married
Rayya and Sakina
Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra
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I Won't Live in My Father's Glbab
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Naima Wasfi
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Cairo Station
Ibrahim Abdulraziq
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Antar Holding His Sword
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Souad Nasr
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Elliel w Akhro
Ahmed Abdel Wareth
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Ferqet Naji Atallah
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Huda Zaki
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شارع المواردي
Mona Qattan
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Samir Seif Director · Salah Jahin Screenplay Ibrahim El-Mefls Screenplay
Worldwide gross $16K · Budget $20K · First release February 19, 1979
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Budget
$19,800
Worldwide gross
$15,600
Gross vs. budget
0.8×
Production
سندريلا فيلم
Production
Egypt
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Languages
Original title
المتوحشة
Original language
Arabic
Spoken on screen
Arabic
Release dates
Egypt · February 19, 1979
Premiere
No release date listed for United States.
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