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Our Blessed Aunt

1998 Egyptian film

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.

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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.[1]

References

  1. [1]
    Al-Rashidi, Nisreen (October 4, 2017). "حب وغرام وانتقام.. 10 أفلام انتصر فيها كيد الستات على الرجال". 3ain. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
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