Streets of Fire (Egyptian film)
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- Ahmed Saleh
- Ibrahim al-Mougi (screenplay and dialogue)
| Streets of Fire | |
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| شوارع من نار | |
| Directed by | Samir Seif |
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| Produced by | Wassef Fayez |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Issam Farid |
| Edited by | Salwa Bakr |
| Music by | Baligh Hamdi |
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Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
Streets of Fire (Arabic: شوارع من نار, transliterated as Shawera men nar) is an Egyptian film released on 12 March 1984. The film is directed by Samir Seif and features a screenplay adapted from the film Irma La Douce, directed by Billy Wilder. It stars Nour El-Sherif and Madiha Kamel.[1]
- Nour El-Sherif (Imam al-Sayyid al-Masry)
- Madiha Kamel (Nafisa Imran/Nousa)
- Laila Elwi (Ensaf Imran)
- Sayed Zayan (Jalal)
- Mohamed Reda (Sayyid al-Masry)
- Nagah el-Mogui (Qarni)
- Naima al-Saghir (Pedroon)
- Karima Sharif (Basima)
- Omaima Selim (Gamalat)
- Zakariya Mowafi (Al-Usul)
- Ahmed Abu Obeya (Al-Tamraji/Al-Barman)
- Hanem Muhammad (Mother of Imam al-Sayyid al-Masry)
- Qassem el-Daly (Awaden)
- Sharifa Zeitoun (Aziza)
Plot
In the 1940s, a policeman named Imam al-Sayyid al-Masry moves from Ismailia to Cairo to work in the red-light district. He falls in love with a prostitute named Nousa, who works for a pimp named Jalal, without knowing her profession. Imam defends her from a British soldier who blocks her path in the street and assaults her, thereby losing his place on the police force after a trial. Thus out of work, Imam returns to the neighborhood to search for work, ultimately becoming a pimp himself and winning a turf war with Jalal. Imam becomes a neighborhood magistrate, abolishes prostitution in the district, turns his brothel into a nightclub, and joins the guerrillas resisting British occupation.