Cinema
The Collar and the Bracelet
الطوق والأسورة
Khairy Beshara · 1986
Synopsis
A village in Upper Egypt, in the thirties according to elCinema. Three women of three generations live under the same roof and under the weight of tradition: Hazina, the mother, Fahima, her daughter, and Farhana, the granddaughter. Fahima was forced into marriage with an impotent man, and Farhana's birth sets the village talking. Moustafa, Hazina's son, who went abroad, returns one day and finds his niece, bound to defend the family's honour.
Context
The film was released on 7 June 1986. It is based on the work of Yahya al-Taher Abdallah; Yahya Azmi and Khairy Beshara wrote the screenplay, with, according to elCinema, the poet Abderrahmane al-Abnoudi. Tarek el-Telmessani was responsible for the images and Intissar Abdel Fattah for the music, for El Alamia TV Cinéma. Fardous Abdel Hamid plays Hazina, Sherihan Farhana, Ezzat el-Alayli Moustafa, Ahmed Abdel Aziz the blacksmith, and the singer Mohamed Mounir appears in it.
Who it is for
A colour feature film, of over two hours, in Upper Egyptian Arabic, harsh in what it shows of the fate of women.
Prizes and reception
Bronze Palm at Valencia in 1986, twentieth of the hundred best Egyptian films in 1996, according to elCinema.