Hind Rostom

A comedic tale created by the late actor Hussein Imam to pay tribute to the stars of the Egyptian cinema in its golden age. The main story is based on mixing scenes of 21-star from black and white period with other scenes written by and starring Imam so that the final product is the rediscovering of old stars in a new context.

This 2009 documentary by Mona Ghandour details the production of CAIRO STATION and includes interviews with director Youssef Chahine, screenwriter Abdel Hay Adib, and actors Hind Rostom and Farid Shawki.

Quoting the novel (Lolita) by Vladimir Nabokov, the film revolves around (Ahmed), who owns a hotel in Alexandria and falls in love with (Siham) and her teenage daughter Sahar, with whom he retrieves memories from his childhood, and after leaving Alexandria, Ahmed travels to Cairo, and there the conflict between mother and daughter revolves around Ahmed's love.

Abdullah, a car driver, is accused in the murder of the thug Magdy and a friend of the Ghanaian Nawal. This criminal escapes after he tried to defend himself, but the events follow and he is also accused of killing the Ghanaian Nawal, he lands in one of the villas where Murad and his wife live with their young son, and Abdullah takes from the house residents Hostages so he can escape

Salem was arrested for a crime he was not involved in. His brother-in-law Kamel has sinned with a young girl who becomes pregnant, so Salem takes her to have an abortion but she dies during the operation. When Salem knows that his wife is in critical condition,he wants to see her and tell her the truth.

A gang that smuggles money abroad always manages to escape the grip of the police, where methods of escape and concealment are high in it, the police decide to push one of its own elements, one of the men known to this gang to work with them from within and can reach the influential elements And effective

Karima, the cabaret owner who's called 'Queen of the Night', meets Dr. Mahmoud, the university professor, and falls in love with him. Mahmoud is a widower living with his daughter Hoda who is engaged, and when Mahmoud proposes to Karima, both the daughter and her fiancé are against it.

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Fathi is a university doctor in Beirut University, and his wife, Samia, is a TV presenter who is surprised by the arrival of Matilda, the daughter of his Swedish friend, to live with them. Samia is jealous of Matilda's beauty, as Matilda begins to flirt with Fathi and he tries to resist her temptation.

Hussein, a shy young man, is desperately in love with Samiha. However, Samiha is more interested in her singing and dancing cousin Lucy. Admiring Hussein greatly, Samiha's father attempts to help him and starts spreading the rumor that Hussein is having an affair with famous actress Hind Rostom, hoping jealousy will move the daughter's heart. The plan seems to work... until Hind Rostom herself comes to town.

Three stories written by Ihsan Abdul Quddus about three thieves, their circumstances differed, and their motives for theft differed.The first steals from a traitorous wife believing that this is his right, and the second steals a public bus in order to quickly reach his sick wife, the third steals his old aunt to be able to get married.

When Magdy writes an article about the pianist Nousa, his colleague Sherine grows jealous and claims that Nousa is not real and that Magdy invented her. Magdy tries to find Nousa to prove his innocence, only for Nousa to lie and get him in trouble.

Mukhtar is a musically talented individual who is surrounded by bad friends who make him squander his talent. When he falls and marries Annan, she tries to set him on the right path which sets off problems between them. When they get divorced, a repentant Mukhtar tries to get Annan back.

The story revolves around the girl (Jalila), who lives with her stepfather who asks her to steal from customers in the bar. Jalila runs away from her mother's house and her husband who treats her harshly. After escaping, she is able to find work on the estate of a rich man (Youssef Bey), who falls in love with her, along with his son (Hassan), who works in veterinary medicine.

Hoda and her sister live in Mount Lebanon, where they have a rest on the road, and through the tourist delegations that come to the place, they get to know the tour guide Adel, she loves Hoda the guide without feeling her emotions, but he loves her sister who shares the same feeling, Adel agrees with his sweetheart to marry when Hoda knows how to decide to work in a nightclub.

Ahmed is a novelist who has passed the age of youth. He spends his life on many romantic adventures, until Ahmed meets a beautiful girl who is the daughter of the caretaker of his estate that he owns. Ahmed discovers that this girl is very impressed by the romantic stories he writes, so he decides to ask her for marriage. Will she agree?

Wafaa's husband dies, so she decides to manage the companies he left behind herself, which angers her Upper Egyptian uncle who objects to women working. Wafaa thinks about getting married again to be under the protection of a man who will protect her from her uncle's interference. She chooses the worker Magdy who loves her, but she always rejects him under the pretext of being loyal to her husband. She discovers among her late husband's papers papers proving that he was married.

Ahmed and Ra'fat both love Laila, but Ahmed marries her first and they have a child. Years pass, during which Ahmed's sister Mona waits for Ra'fat to notice her love for him. As the tripartite aggression takes place, Ahmed is drafted into the army and news arrives about his death.

A famous actress retires and marries a rich man a customary marriage. Then his family forces him to divorce her. He waits till she gives birth and steals the marriage paper and escapes. Then she kills him with his new wife and is sentenced to imprisonment and her child is adopted by a family.

Alawi is a theater director, who lives an unstable family life, as his wife does not understand the nature of his profession, and seems very jealous over him, as it does not lead him to the requirements of the home as he likes, which causes Alawi to spend most of his time outside the home, while during his discharge he plays one of the plays invading Dosa, Which finds her innocence something different from his wife, and feelings of love grow between the two, the wife knows about the relationship, so she requests a divorce, and the women crowd with him after separating from his wife.

Atwa takes care of his little brother until he completes his education. Atwa works in a factory and has physical strength, which he exploits by working as a pimp on Imad al-Din Street. Rawhiyya, who lost her entire family at the hands of the British occupation, recognizes him. Atwa works as a spy for one of the princesses to convey news of the guerrillas, and Rawhiyya leaves him. When you know that.

Sami is a famous engineer who lives with his wife Laila who cannot have children. The man travels to Lebanon on a business trip and is always in touch with his wife. He meets the hotel cleaning lady who gets close to him and makes a mistake with her. The relationship develops and when he finds out that Fajr, the cleaning lady, is pregnant, he asks her to abort herself and then returns to Egypt without the woman fulfilling his request.

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This comedy revolves around Wahid, a happily married composer who has a one-off dream about kissing Boussa, his gorgeous neighbor and his wife Latifah’s best friend. He feels guilty, and foolishly confesses this to Latifah, who naturally becomes suspicious and concludes he and Boussa are having an affair. The misunderstandings worsen tenfold when Latifah lets her parents in on the situation.

The film is about a couple who live in a popular area and have a son, the husband works in smuggling contraband and encourages his son to walk this road and makes him his assistant. The mother strongly objects, so the husband divorces her and expels her from the house, so she resorts to a doctor in the neighborhood and works for him as a nurse, to see then what fate hides for her of surprises.

Fatima learns from Dr. Wahid Farid that her husband left her a letter before his death, informing her that he intends to commit suicide. When he goes to Khorshid Bey's house, he is surprised that he is not dead and threatens him with a gun. Wahid pulls out his gun and kills his lover's husband. In front of the police, he tells the story, that he has known Fatima for a long time when she almost committed suicide, but Dr. Wahid gave her hope and asked her to marry him.

A biography about the iconic singer and composer Sayed Darwish, from his childhood in Alexandria until his sudden death on the day Saad Zaghloul returned from exile, reviewing the important milestones in his life and his most famous tunes and songs.

The feelings of vengeance turn into forgiveness, when Ghalia falls in love with Awad, who killed her husband. After she finds out that Awad took revenge for his brother after her husband married a dancer and tried to kill her and her son.

A man kills his wife’s lover and isolates himself, only to later discover that the woman he rescues is the lover’s vengeful sister.

Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.

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In Egypt forties and before the 14th of July revolution in 1952, a poor family lives in a prince's palace where the father works as a gardener. The family has two children Ali and Hassan. Ali grows up liking the prince's daughter who loves him too. Now grown ups, they realize how impossible this love story is. Joining the army, Ali fights in Palestine while the brother joins the police and is part of the King's guards. Ali gets back from Palestine and joins the secret military movement that will soon rule Egypt, The Free Officers. The revolution starts and the Free Officers are now in charge, putting Ali against his brother as a guard for the king and also against his lover, the prince's daughter as the revolution will confiscate all her family's wealth.

1950 Cairo, Amin is a simple employee who lives with his family of three, his wife Zahira, son Nabil and daughter Hoda. Amin’s friend Mabrouk convinces Amin to invest his life savings in a project, which he promises, will get him rich. Amin agrees but forgets to take a receipt. Amin suddenly dies and watches on from the after life.

A lawyer defends his friend, but loses his innocence document at the bar and the friend is convicted. The lawyer gets involved in a relationship with a mistress and leaves his wife, whom he blames for losing the document. Mistress is murdered and the wife's lawyer is accused of killing her. He comes back to his senses and tries to prove his wife's innocence.

Ebn Hameedo is an undercover police officer who arrives with his colleague Hassan at a fishing area near Suez where drug trafficking is practiced. They meet two sisters, Azeeza, the younger, and Hameeda, the older maiden. They rent a room in their father’s house and fall in love with the two girls. Their love could have led to marriage had it not been for al-Baaz Effendi who wanted to marry Azeeza and tried to get rid of Hassan. Al-Baaz is also involved in the narcotics business. so they track him down in order to catch the rest of the gang.

The film's story is about his bait and her father, who borrows from the neighborhood teachers who want to marry him and promises everyone who lends him money to marry his daughter to him. The film revolves around the character of Hassouna Al-Fatari, who falls in love with Tohme and at the same time falls in love with her, Alwa Al-Tamraji, so the conflict occurs between Hassouna and Alwa and the father who enters Habib Tohma in a mental hospital, which at the end of the film and on Tohma's wedding day can escape from the hospital and reveal the truth.

Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."

Two youths open an office for secret police work. A man in the office asks him to look for a dog that his mistress has gone out and lost, while he is staying with her in the hotel where she works as a dancer. The investigators are unable to find the dog and decide to hand over another dog similar to the client. One goes to the hotel to deliver the fake dog dancer after changing his shape to become the same as the missing dog. In the hotel unexpected events occur, so the young man can discover a gang consisting of some of the hotel staff specialized in stealing money. The young man masquerades and searches for this gang and the events follow.

A man and a woman get married, but soon the husband suffers a lot of boredom and anger because of the constant lying in everything, which drives him to travel to work in Paris

Escaping his father's cruelty and indifference, Magdy leaves the house on a rainy night and a nightclub owner hits him with her car.

Wahid young painter. He is on his way to participate in his new painting exhibition, shocked by a car and insisting on a drawing by Madiha Yousri, the woman fighting for women's rights and equal to the man instead of the old painting. And here talked a lot of comic paradoxes until the marriage between them.

Master Toha had eleven ex-husbands, but she wants to marry Rashad the driver, who refuses to marry her. Toha attempts to pressure him through his sister but he also refuses, eventually deciding to hire a killer to get rid of him unless he submits himself.

Farid is forced to marry his cousin, Yasmina, after their uncle leaves them a big inheritance, provided that the two get married. They decide to get married on paper and separate after receiving the inheritance, but during the honeymoon in Aswan,they fall in love with each other.

In the blasting heat of a Friday afternoon in Cairo, a group of people – among them a movie star, a thief, a madman, a cook and a pregnant woman – find themselves trapped in an elevator for 12 hours.

Laila is a good girl and loves the engineer Hossam, and he wants to submit to her, but her family refuse to marry them before she marries her older sister Sawsan, and that sister despite her beauty and attractiveness, no one has presented her to her. .

Spoiled rich girl Nadia gets jealous after finding out her father's plan to remarry. She tries to break them apart, spreading lies about her new mother-in-law and getting involved with a man twice her age.

Lula's father Abdel Hamid loses his wallet. Hussain finds it, and returns it to Abdel Hamid . Impressed by his honesty, Abdel Hamid gives him a job. Lola begins to woo him to forget her life with Aziz, and asks him to work for her.

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Ahmed Awad Najjar Isami, who ended up with a grand workshop owner in which dozens of workers work, he meets with Tuha, a girl he saw growing up in his neighborhood and attached to it, and he dreamed of it, but she does not exchange love, and then he loses his wealth, as a fire breaks out in the workshop and he comes over it, and then Ahmed meets Sana in the hospital to which Ahmed is taken after he was injured in the fire, and at the same time Ahmed loves tohave violently, and with the same violence Nana protects him, and Sana loves him.

A weak father and an authoritarian mother teaches her young daughter to dance, and dreams of being rich by her daughter after working in a nightclub. She was identified by the wealthy (Amin), the manager of her father's company, Shehata Effendi, and became his mistress. From the company, when the people of the neighborhood saw him went to her mother and stabbed her intended to kill her, but she survived death, and became blind, and entered the prison. The daughter identified the lawyer (Hussein) and loved him, and severed her relationship with (Amin), and on the day of her marriage discovered that he was the son of (Amin), and returned to dance and play and alcohol until she got asthma, and then hit a car, broke her foot, sustained permanent disability, and lost her savings, She returned to the neighborhood with her blind mother, and her father came out of the prison and reunion, and then Han (Hussein), he came to marry her, but the fate was closer to him.

An impostor recently got out of prison only to get back into crime life as he embezzles women by deceiving them with black magic.

The manager of the Childhood Association gets to know Samira, who provides aid for good, She uses her apartment as a meeting place for friends and is the source of her donations. Samira falls in love with the director of the association, despite knowing that he is married and has children, who go too far in their relationship

While Awad's family believes him to be an honorable man, Awad heads a drug-dealing gang. He tries to keep the balance between his family's image of him and his illegal business dealings.

(Samia) is a married woman with one daughter named (Laila). One day, (Samia) discovers that she has cancer and is close to death. She tries to hide the matter from her husband and daughter all the time, but at the same time she tries to bring her husband (Ahmed) closer to (Elham), his colleague at work, so that she can reassure herself before her death. The matter actually succeeds, even if it makes (Samia) jealous. However, things turn upside down when the doctor discovers the diagnosis is wrong, and she learns that she is not sick.

The film revolves around a girl who runs away from home because her father objects to her marrying the one she loves. She secretly marries her lover. One day, the husband goes on an archaeological excavation mission, but he is lost in an accident. The wife thinks he has died. After discovering that she is pregnant with her husband, she leaves the child after giving birth in the care of a nurse she trusts based on her aunt's advice. She travels on a trip to Europe, at the same time that the husband returns with memory loss.

Neamat lives with her father and sister, while their neighbor Ahmed lives with his criminal brother and his mother, his brother steals a sum of money and his mother seeks to save him, in the meantime, the brother commits murder out of theft, but fate makes Nemat see Ahmed at the crime scene instead of his brother, to push her and she becomes blind And events escalate.

After his wife cheats on him with his friend, a husband seeks solace in a nightclub where a dancer and an alcoholic friend try to console him. When the alcoholic friend kills his wife for money, he leaves his daughter under the care of the husband and the dancer.

"Salwa" (Dariya Ahmad) is a young girl who lives with her father millionaire "Abdul Rahman Shukri" (Hussein Riyad), his wife "Suad" (Mimi Shakib) and her daughter "Al-Atef" (Sameha Ayoub). Her daughter preferred to "write" on her

Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.

Abdul Ghani (Sharafnat) is a stingy man who marries his daughter Jawahar (Hajar Hamdi) and her aunt, Umm Khalil (Mary Munib), who practices self-indulgence and deprives him of all the pleasures of life. The daughter lives poor and deprived despite the richness of her father. Abdul Ghani retains his money in an iron safe inside the wall and his estate agent Rizk (Abdul Hamid Zaki) computes the account of the two kings, and does not excuse any farmer who is late in paying the rent