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 by | Mahmoud Zulfikar |
| Written by | Yusuf Sibai |
| Screenplay by | Abo El Seoud El Ebiary |
| Produced by | Aziza Amir |
| Starring | Mahmoud Zulfikar Faten Hamama |
| Cinematography | Clilio |
| Edited by | Albert Naguib |
Production company | Aziza Amir Films |
| Distributed by | Bhna Films |
Release date | 29 December 1950 |
Running time | 105 mins |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Egyptian 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
- Khouri, Malek (2010). The Arab National Project in Youssef Chahine's Cinema. American Univ in Cairo Press. ISBN 978-977-416-354-8.
External links
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