Al Haram (film)

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Al Haram (Arabic: الحرام‎, The Sin) is a classical 1965 Egyptian drama movie directed by Henry Barakat. The movie stars Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom, and Abdallah Gheith and is based on a novel by Youssef Idriss. The movie was nominated for the Prix International award in the Cannes International Film Festival. This movie was also chosen as one of the best Egyptian movie productions in the Egyptian Cinema centennial.

[edit] Plot

Azizah, a poor peasant woman, portrays worker oppression in this somber social drama. She gets savagely raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes. She does not reveal what had happened to her husband who is suffering from an illness. She conceals the pregnancy and throttles the baby after it is born. She also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling peasants.

The newspaper Le Monde wrote: "we have attracted to this movie due to the true picture that reflects the suffering of this village, the picture is not about a problem for one individual, it’s about the reflection of everything surrounding her, from people to culture."

[edit] Cast

• Faten Hamama as Azizah.
• Zaki Rostom as the guard.
• Abdallah Gheith as Aziza's husband.

[edit] References

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