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.