The Barred Road

1958 film

22 April 1958 (1958-04-22)

CountryEgyptLanguageArabic

The Barred Road (Egyptian Arabic: الطريق المسدود, translit. Al-Tareeq al-Masdood) is a 1958 Egyptian drama/romance film.

Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous.^[1] The film was co-written by El Sayed Bedeir and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz. It starred Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar. The film received an award from the Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema and was selected one of the top 150 films in Egypt in 1996.^[2]

Plot

Faten Hamama plays Fayza, a young student who lives with her family after the death of her father. Left with no money, her mother (Zouzou Mady) is forced to turn her house into an illegal gambling house. Fayza opposes her mother's solution. Munir (Ahmed Mazhar) is a writer who meets Fayza and falls in love with her but she rejects him. Fayza decides to leave to the countryside where she works as a teacher in a small school. Fayza gets into trouble in the school and, desperate and hopeless, decides to walk in her mother's path. Munir convinces Fayza to stop.^[2]

Cast

Faten Hamama as Fayza
Ahmed Mazhar as Munir
Shukry Sarhan as Ahmed
Zouzou Mady as Fayza's mother
Khayria Ahmed
Ferdoos Mohammed
Tewfik El Dekn
Naima Wasfy

References

^ Al Aris, Ibrahim. "The Legacy of Salah Abu Seif". Al Jadid Magazine. Retrieved 2007-03-09.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ ^a ^b "Al-Tareeq al-Masdood" (in Arabic). Faten Hamama's official website. Retrieved 2007-04-01.

External links

The Barred Road at IMDb

Films directed by Salah Abu Seif

The Adventures of Antar and Abla (1948)
Your Day Will Come (1951)
Love Humiliates (1952)
The Monster (1954)
The Leech (1956)
The Tough (1957)
Sleepless (1957)
The Barred Road (1958)
This Is Love (1958)
I Am Free (1959)
Between Heaven and Earth (1959)
The Beginning and the End (1960)
The Sun Will Never Set (1961)
Letter from an Unknown Woman (1962)
Cairo 30 (1966)
The Second Wife (1967)
Three Women (1968)
Malatily Bathhouse (1973)
The Water-Carrier Is Dead (1977)
The Criminal (1978)
Al Qadisiyya (1981)
War in the Land of Egypt (1991)

v t e Works by Naguib Mahfouz
Cairo Trilogy	Palace Walk (1956) Palace of Desire (1957) Sugar Street (1957)
Other novels	Khufu's Wisdom (1939) Rhadopis of Nubia (1943) Thebes at War (1944) Midaq Alley (1947) The Mirage (1948) The Beginning and the End (1949) Children of Gebelawi (1959) The Thief and the Dogs (1961) Autumn Quail (1962) The Search (1964) The Beggar (1965) Adrift on the Nile (1966) Miramar (1967) Mirrors (1972) Love in the Rain (1973) Karnak Café (1974) The Harafish (1977) Wedding Song (1981) Arabian Nights and Days (1982) The Journey of Ibn Fattouma (1983) The Day the Leader Was Killed (1983) Akhenaten, Dweller in Truth (1985) The Coffeehouse (1988)
Short stories	"Zaabalawi" (1961) "Qismati and Nasibi" (1982)
Story collections	Whisper of Madness (1947) God's World (1962) A Story Without a Beginning or an Ending (1971) The Crime (1973) Stories from Our Neighbourhood (1975)
Screenplays	The Adventures of Antar and Abla (1948) Your Day Will Come (1951) The Monster (1954) The Tough (1957) The Barred Road (1958) Jamila, the Algerian (1958) Between Heaven and Earth (1959) Allahu Akbar (1959) The Choice (1970)
Adaptations	The Beginning and the End (1960) Chased by the Dogs (1962) Saladin the Victorious (1963) Cairo 30 (1966) Khan El Khalili (1967) Chitchat on the Nile (1971) Karnak (1975) The Guilty (1975) The Beginning and the End (1993) Midaq Alley (1995)