Virtue for Sale (1950 film)

Virtue for Sale (Egyptian Arabic: أخلاق للبيع aliases: Morals for Sale translit.: Akhlaq li-l Baie) is a 1950 Egyptian fiction film directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar and starring Mahmoud Zulfikar and Faten Hamama. It is based on “The Land of Hypocrisy” (novel) by Yusuf Sibai.[1]

Virtue for Sale
أخلاق للبيع
Directed byMahmoud Zulfikar
Written byYusuf Sibai
Screenplay byAbo El Seoud El Ebiary
Produced byAziza Amir
StarringMahmoud Zulfikar
Faten Hamama
CinematographyClilio
Edited byAlbert Naguib
Production
company
Distributed byBhna Films
Release date
29 December 1950
Running time
105 mins
CountryEgypt
LanguageEgyptian Arabic

Plot

Within a framework of fiction, the events of the film revolve around a husband who suffers from his mother-in-law, until he encounters a man who sells morals in powder, and he buys him courageous powder to be able to confront his authoritarian mother-in-law, and his life changes, so he decides to return again to the seller and asks for new morals, to change his life completely.

Main cast

  • Mahmoud Zulfikar: (Ahmed)
  • Faten Hamama: (Aminator)
  • Mimi Chakib: (Amina's mother)
  • Mahmoud Shokoko: (Bulbul)
  • Ali al-Kassar: (the seller of morals)
  • Shafiq Noureddine: (Cohen the owner of the pension)
  • Kity: (Dancing Katina)
  • Ali Abdel Aal: (Katina's father)
  • Abdel Hamid Zaki: (Director)
  • Zaki Ibrahim: (Amina's uncle)
  • Aliya Fawzy: (Maid Amina and Ahmed)
  • Toson Moatamed: (Patients hospitalized)
  • Muhammad Sobeih: (The thief)
  • Abdel Moneim Bassiouni: (Employee)

References

  1. Khouri, Malek (2010). The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-416-354-8.
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