The Open Door (1963 film)

The Open Door (‫ اﻟﺒﺎب اﻟﻤﻔﺘﻮح‬El bab el maftuh) is a 1963 Egyptian film
directed by Henry Barakat with Faten Hamama, Mahmoud Moursy, and Saleh
Selim. The film is based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Egyptian writer
Latifa al-Zayyat.[1][2][3]

References
1. Dream Makers on the Nile: A Portrait of Egyptian Cinema - Page 29
=977424429X Mustafa Darwish - 1998 ... She was at her best in
films like Du'aa al-Karawan (Call of the Curlew, 1959), adapted from
a novel by Taha Hussein; al-Bab al-Maftuh (The Open Door, 1963),
from a story by Latifa al-Zayat; and al-Haram (The Sin, 1964), from a
story by Yusef Idris. The Open Door is set in the city. The heroine, by
...
2. Arab Observer - Issues 172-184 - Page 152 1963 «THE OPEN
DOOR» The last twenty years have witnessed a radical change in 1963 film poster
the position and outlook of women in Egypt. From a docile chattel
owned and ordered about by ... The director Henry Barakat, gives us
some interesting symbolism in his photography and montage. The piercing beat of the drum at the celebration of
a loveless marriage is immediately followed by a shot in the Suez Canal area where the heroine's brother...
3. Oliver Leaman Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film 1134662521 - 2003 - Some of
Barakat's highly praised films were literary adaptations, such as the patriotic Fi Baytinna Rajul/ A Man in our
House (1961) and the quasi-feminist al-Bab al-Maftuh / The Open Door (1963). Barakat discovered, moreover,
the Lebanese singer Sabah (singer) and presented her for the first time in al-Qalb Lahu Wahid/ The Heart Loves
Only One in 1945. He directed in Lebanon two of the most successful musicals, starring the Rahbani Brothers
and the singer Fayruz (singer) Safar Barlak (1967) ..

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