
Chafika and Metwalli
- Release Date: 1978
- Type: Featured
- Run time: 178 Minutes
- Directed by: Aly Badrakhan
- Produced by: Misr International Films
- Screenplay: Salah Jaheen
- Cast: Soad Hosny, Ahmed Mazhar, Mahmoud Abdel Aziz, Ahmed Zaky, Gameel Rateb, Malak El Gamal, Younis Shalaby, Mahmoud El Gendy, Abdel Wares Asr, Shafik Galal, Naema El Sagheer
- Cinematography: Abdel Halim Nasr
- Art direction: Fakhry El Leithy
- Editing: Said El Sheikh
- Costume design: Khayrat Gad El Mawla, Ahmed El Kassar
- Music: Fouad El Thahiry
- Sound: Andrea Zandels
- Subtitles: English, French
Synopsis:
Based on a folktale about brother and sister Shafika and Metwalli, the story revolves around the sister who escapes her petty existence in a small Upper Egyptian village and moves to the city. Shafika's poverty acquires her a bad reputation as a belly dancer and kept woman. Badrakhan gives the story an unconventional socio-political edge by setting it at the middle of the 19th century, when depraved Egyptian Pashas stopped at nothing to increase their wealth and influence.