Among the Ruins


Among the Ruins is a 1959 Egyptian romance film starring Faten Hamama and Emad Hamdy. The film is directed by the Egyptian film director Ezzel Dine Zulficar and based on a novel written by Youssef El Sebai. Hamama received an award for her performance and the film was listed in the top 150 Egyptian films in 1996.

Plot

plays Mona a university student who falls in love with her professor, Mahmoud, who is also a gifted writer. Mahmoud proposes to Mona but her mother refuses and Mona marries another man and leave Egypt. Years later after she returns to Egypt, Mona visits a sick Mahmoud in a hospital. Mahmoud expresses his love to Mona as he lies in his deathbed.

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