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Our Blessed Aunt (Arabic: ست الستات, transliterated as Sett al-Settat) is an Egyptian comedy, drama film released on June 29, 1998. The film is directed and written by Raafat el-Mehi and stars Laila Elwi, Maged el-Masry, and Magda El-Khatib. The story concerns a young Abdelaziz, who returns to Cairo from another unspecified Arab country. Coming back to his aunt Fakiha's apartment, he discovers that it has become a brothel run by a madam who denies that she is related to him.




Cast


Laila Elwi (Lola)
Maged el-Masry (Abdelaziz)
Hassan Hosny (Hassan el-Demerdash)
Magda El-Khatib (Basant Abdel-Al/Fakiha al-Sharnoubi/Sitt al-Satat)
Entessar (Zeinab/Dudu)
Ali Hassanein (Mamoun Hafez)
Mukhles al-Buhairi (Major General Azzouz)
Saeed al-Saleh (Fawzy, a paralegal)
Ahmed Rizk (Hamada, a soldier)
Abdulrahim El-Tanir (minister)
Mohaja Abdelrahman (Sheikha Hosina)
Diaa Abdel Khalek (taxi driver)
Nashat Talaat
Ahmed Saeed
Najah Fahim
Iman Wahba
Youssef Abdelmaqsoud
Hazem Fouad
Laila Abdelhakim
Hazem Mamdouh
Jihan Wehbe
Laila Helmy
Moushira
Azza Fouad
Ismat Kamal
Ahmed Samir
Rasha Fouad
Ahmed Bahloul




Synopsis


The comedy's protagonist Abdelaziz (Maged el-Masry) returns to Cairo after working in another unnamed Arab country. Going to the apartment of his aunt Fakiha (Magda el-Khatib), he discovers that it has become a brothel. Lola (Laila Elwi), one of the prostitutes there, tries to convince him to marry her. He has them make the place a pension, but they carry on their old profession anyway. Everyone is arrested, and Abdelaziz discovers a big surprise.




Legacy


Critic Nisreen al-Rashidi cited the film among others on the website 3ain, remarking that:

Egyptian cinema has presented women and dealt with their problems throughout its history, even addressing them by name, sometimes as “mara” [woman] and sometimes as “sitt” [lady]…Here we monitor ten films using the word “sitt” from the earliest days of the silver screen to today.




External links


El Cinema page
Dhliz page
Karohat page




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
• Our Blessed Aunt
• Laila Elwi
• Magda El-Khatib
• Ali Hassanein (actor)
• Charles I of Austria
• Margaret Pole, Countess of Salisbury
• Our Lady of Lourdes
• Usha Vance
• Gemma Galgani
• Katharine Drexel