The Game of Each Day
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- Ahmed Lotfy (story, scenario, and dialogue)
- Abdel Majid Abu Zaid
- Abdel-Kader Telmissany (scenario and dialogue)
| The Game of Each Day | |
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| Arabic | لعبة كل يوم |
| Directed by | Khalil Shawki |
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| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Diaa el-Din el-Mahdy |
| Edited by | Kamal Abul Ela |
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Production company | General Egyptian Cinema Organization |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
The Game of Each Day (Arabic: لعبة كل يوم, transliterated as Leighbat kol yawm) is an Egyptian film released on August 2, 1971. The film is directed by Khalil Shawki, features a screenplay by Ahmed Lotfy with help from Abdel Majid Abu Zaid and Abdel-Kader Telmissany on scenario and dialogue, and stars Magda El-Khatib, Nabila Ebeid, Taheyya Kariokka, Ezzat El Alaili, and Abdel Moneim Ibrahim. The plot features a taxi service worker named Shabara who falls in love with a woman named Anshirah but incurs the jealousy of a man named Ibrahim, who plots to keep them apart.
- Nabila Ebeid (Anshirah)
- Magda El-Khatib (Latafa, a fortune teller)
- Taheyya Kariokka (Anshirah’s mother, a koshary vendor)
- Abdel Moneim Ibrahim (Shabara al-Afi, attendant at a local taxi garage)
- Ezzat El Alaili (Aino, a foreman)
- Mohamed Reda (Ibrahim, a café owner)
- Abdel Moneim Madbouly (Abbas Efendi)
- Madeiha Hamdy (Fakina, Ibrahim’s daughter)
- Gamal Ismail (Sergeant Amin)
- Saeed Saleh
- Aziza Helmy
- Shafik Noureddin
- Abdel Salam Mohamed
- Abdel Ghani Nagdi
- Seif Allah Mokhtar
- Abdelmoneim Bassiouni
- Mohamed Abu Hashish
- Omran Bahr
Songs
The songs are sung by Mohamed al-Ezaby. They feature melodies by Mohamed El-Mougy and Ali Ismael. Numbers include “جمل الأحمال” (“Camel Loads”), “نوادر” (“Stories”), “أمانة يا دنيا” (“Some Honesty, Everyone”), “في بطني جرح يا طبيب” (“Doctor, I’ve Got a Heartache”), and “لما نوينا على السفر” (“Why Do We Wander?”). There is also a mawwal by El-Mougy entitled “بستان حبيبي” (“Darling Garden”).[1][2][3]
Synopsis
Shabara al-Afi (Abdel Moneim Ibrahim) is an itinerant young man who doesn’t know his origins or family. Wherever he lays his hat is his home, and his latest gig is at a taxi garage in Desouk in the Kafr El Sheikh Governorate. Usually he takes passengers to Birinbal, but he searches earnestly for income to pay rent and marry his beloved Anshirah (Nabila Ebeid).
Many live in Shabara’s neighborhood, mostly struggling to make ends meet in odd jobs. Some have been living there for a while and accumulated property, especially Ibrahim (Mohamed Reda), a stable man-about-town. Ibrahim’s daughter Fakina (Madeiha Hamdy) falls in love with Ibrahim’s foreman Aino (Ezzat El Alaili), who refuses to marry her. Meanwhile, women vie for Ibrahim’s love, including Anshirah’s koshary-selling mother (Taheyya Kariokka) and the fortune teller Latafa (Magda El-Khatib), but he oppresses his workers. Shabara comes to Ibrahim to haggle over the price koshary but soon finds work as a hawker and taxi-washer, though Ibrahim cheats him on pay. Ibrahim interacts with many characters at the market as he woos Anshirah and is wooed by her mother, including an old man named Abdul Kafi as well as Abbas Effendi (Abdel Moneim Madbouly), a legal eagle conspiring with Ibrahim as an accomplice.