Baeat el-Khubz (1953)
Drama, Musical • 2h 10m
The husband dies and leaves his wife Khadijah and their two children Nimat and Sami who go to live with a relative of them. After getting arrested on charge of burning the factory where her husband was working (a crime managed by Boss Abdulhakim after Khadijah refused to marry him), she becomes insane and gets hospitalized. After ten years, her memories return after a fire in hospital. She begins a journey to search for Nimat and Sami. Nimat was raised in an orphanage, and she now loves Midhat. Sami becomes a lawyer. Khadijah starts working as a bread vendor in a furnace in the name of Hamidah. Abdulhakim hides under the name of Gharib, marries, and has a sick daughter. Nimat gets to know Gharib's daughter, but Gharib tells his daughter that Nimat's mother burned the factory. Gharib tries to kill Khadijah, but she recognizes that he is Boss Abdulhakim. He admits her innocence as his daughter dies.
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Egypt
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