Return My Heart (Arabic: رد قلبى, translit: Rodd Qalbi) is a 1957 Egyptian film directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar and written by Yusuf Sibai and Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. It stars Shoukry Sarhan, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Salah Zulfikar, Hussein Riad and Hind Rostom. The film is listed in the Top 100 Egyptian films of the 20th century.
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Synopsis
The film chronicles the story of a poor young man, the son of a gardener, named Ali (Shoukry Sarhan) and his brother Hussein (Salah Zulfikar), and Ali and his immortal love for a rich princess named Engy (Mariam Fakhr eddine) does not see the light of class discrimination, and her father's categorical rejection of that marriage. Their relationship becomes complicated when her father learns of this relationship, so he expels Ali's father, and Engy threatens that he will smite her lover if she does not back down. In fact, Engy backs down from the relationship and becomes engaged to someone else. Ali's life is turned upside down, and he and Engy's life becomes complicated; As he felt that Engy had betrayed him.
Crew
Director: Ezz El-Dine Zulficar
Story writer: Yusuf Sibai
Screenplay: Ezz El-Dine Zulficar
Producer: Asia Dagher
Cinematographer: Wahid Farid
Editor: Kamal Abu El Ela
Music: Fouad El Zahery
Studio: Lotus Film
Distributor: Lotus Film
Cast
Shoukry Sarhan as officer Ali Abdul Wahed
Mariam Fakhr eddine as Princess Engy
Salah Zulfikar as officer Hussein Abdul Wahed
Hussain Riad as Al-Rais Abdul Wahed Al-ganaini, father of Ali and Hussein
Hind Rostom as the dancer Karima
Ferdoos Mohammed as mother of Ali and Hussein
Ahmed Allam as Prince Ismail Kamal
Zahret El-Ola as Bahiya, the daughter of Ali's aunt and Hussain's wife
Ahmed Mazhar as Prince Alaa, brother of Engy
Kamal Yassin as Suleiman is Ali's best friend
Rushdy Abaza as Refaat the friend of Ali and Hussein
Adly Kasseb
Iskandar Mansi as a colleague farmer and friend of Al-Rais Abdel Wahed
In culture
Since its release in 1957, the film has been shown on the Egyptian state television on every 23 July, which is the anniversary of the 1952 revolution, due to the fact that the main character, Ali, joined the Free Officers Movement which carried out the revolution.