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The Final Encounter

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{{Infobox film

| native_name = اللقاء الأخير

| director = El-Sayed Ziada

| writer = {{ubl|Mahrous Ziada- (story)|El-Sayed Ziada (screenplay and dialogue)}}- or El-Sayed Ziada

| starring = {{ubl|Badriya Raafat|Mohsen Sarhan|Zahrat El-Ola|Mahmoud el-Meliguy|Ferdoos Mohammed|Zeinat Sedki}}

| cinematography = {{ubl|Bruno Salvi|Cello Cicivelli (exterior cinematography)}}

| music = {{ubl|Farid al-Atrash|Mohamed Ehsan|Ibrahim Hussein Darwish (composers)|Omar El Gizawy|Doria Ahmed|Galal Sadiq (singers)|Ahmed Mansour (lyricist)}}

| editing = Ahmed Ismail

| producer = El Sayed and Mahrous Ziada and Partners

| released = {{film date|1953|06|01}}

| runtime = 100 minutes

| studio = Studio Misr

| distributor = Aframusi Distribution

| country = Egypt

| language = Egyptian Arabic

}}

The Final Encounter ({{langx|ar|اللقاء الأخير}}, transliterated as El-lekhaa el-akhir) is an Egyptian film released on June 1, 1953. The film is directed by El-Sayed Ziada, features a screenplay co-written with his brother Mahrous, and stars Baadriya Raafat{{cite news |last1=Abdelhamid |first1=Randa |title=معلومات نادرة عن الممثلة بدرية رأفت اقرأ المزيد على مقال.كوم |url= https://mqaall.com/actress-badria-raafat/ |access-date=11 November 2022 |work=Mqaall |date=June 7, 2020}} (in her last cinema role),{{cite news |last1=Hegazy |first1=Bahaa |title="قتل وذبحة صدرية وحريق".. من هي الفنانة بدرية رأفت التي طاردها سوء الحظ؟ |url=https://www.masrawy.com/arts/zoom/details/2019/12/26/1695430/-%D9%82%D8%AA%D9%84-%D9%88%D8%B0%D8%A8%D8%AD%D8%A9-%D8%B5%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D9%88%D8%AD%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%82-%D9%85%D9%86-%D9%87%D9%8A-%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%81%D9%86%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%A9-%D8%A8%D8%AF%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A9-%D8%B1%D8%A3%D9%81%D8%AA-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AA%D9%8A-%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF%D9%87%D8%A7-%D8%B3%D9%88%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D8%B8- |access-date=11 November 2022 |work=Masrawy |date=December 26, 2019}}{{cite book |last1=Kassem |first1=Mahmoud |title=تاريخ السينما المصرية قراءة الوثائق النادرة |date=2018 |publisher=Arab Press Agency |location=Cairo |page=1953 |author1-link=Mahmoud Kassem }} Emad Hamdy, Mohsen Sarhan, Zahrat El-Ola, Mahmoud el-Meliguy, and Zeinat Sedki. The story centers on a girl who elopes to marry a lover of whom her father does not approve, after which the lover goes missing in an accident and she thinks that he has died. Discovering that she is pregnant, the ostensible widow leaves the child in the care of a nurse and travels to Europe, only for the husband to return with amnesia.

Cast

Songs

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|+ Songs in score

TitleLyricistSinger
“يا قلبي غني” (“My Heart Is Rich”)Ahmed MansourDoria Ahmed{{cite web |title=اغنية يا قلبي غني MP3 296 استماع |url=https://aghany.shewaya.com/song_listen_76509_1.html |website=Aghany Shewaya |access-date=11 November 2022}}{{cite web |title=Doreya Ahmad Songs |url=https://www.arabmelody.net/audios/cb162 |website=Arab Melody |access-date=11 November 2022}}
“يارب” (“Ya Rabb” or “My Liege”)Ahmed MansourGalal Sadiq
“يا زهرة في خيالي” (“Ya Zahra fi Khayali”)Ahmed MansourOmar El Gizawy{{cite web |title=عمر الجيزاوي يغني يا زهره في خيالي |url=https://xn--ngbd3gbhc.vip/vide/10033d62/%D8%B9%D9%85%D8%B1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B2%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A-%D9%8A%D8%A7-%D8%B2%D9%87%D8%B1%D9%87-%D9%81%D9%8A-%D8%AE%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A |website=يوتيوب VIP |access-date=11 November 2022}}

Composers on the score include Farid al-Atrash, Mohamed Ehsan, Ibrahim Hussein Darwish, and Omar El Gizawy.{{cite web |last1=Ramzy |title=افتراضي اللقاء الاخير* درّيّة أحمد - جلال صادق - عمر الجيزاوي 1953 |url=https://www.sama3y.net/forum/showthread.php?t=89633 |website=Sama3y |access-date=11 November 2022}}

Synopsis

The film's protagonist, Nadia (Badriya Raafat), falls in love with Ezzat (Mohsen Sarhan) against the wishes of her father Hassanein Mahmoud el-Meliguy), and the couple secretly marry, but Ezzat goes missing and is feared dead. Nadia falls into severe shock and is treated by Dr. Nabil (Emad Hamdy) and nurse Zahra (Zahrat El-Ola). Dr. Nabil falls in unrequited love with her, but she continues to cherish her late husband's memory. When Nadia discovers that she is pregnant, she travels with her aunt Zainab (Ferdoos Mohammed) and Zahra to give birth away from Hassanein and Dr. Nabil's watchful eyes. Nadia leaves her newborn Salwa to Zahra with a monthly salary to raise the child.

Four years later, Nadia travels with her father and aunt to Europe for her summer vacation, at which time Zahra and Salwa visit Dr. Nabil and the nurse's other hospital colleagues. Zahra discovers by chance that Ezzat has been treated for amnesia at the same hospital for the last four years. Nadia and her father and aunt return to the shocking news of Zahra's death and only learn of Salwa's fate when the aunt finds out that Dr. Nabil intends to place the girl in an orphanage the next morning. Nadia sneaks into the hospital at night to retrieve Salwa but is caught by a nurse and compelled to confess to Dr. Nabil in the morning. After agreeing to marry Dr. Nabil based on his promises to take good care of Salwa, Nadia sees her daughter playing in the hospital's garden with Ezzat, who sees a large wooden bar about to fall on Salwa's head all of a sudden. Ezzat takes the blow to protect his daughter, and the impact restores his memory such that all live happily ever after.

External links

  • [https://elcinema.com/en/work/1609739 El Cinema page]
  • {{IMDb title|tt0316167}}
  • [https://dhliz.com/film/al_leqa2_al_akheer Dhliz page]
  • {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20220124191828/https://karohat.com/Title/00f6b316-b279-4729-a3ed-3083ab10f0dc Karohat page]}}
  • [https://letterboxd.com/film/film:667663/ letterboxd page]

References

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Category:Egyptian black-and-white films

Category:1953 films

Category:Films about amnesia

Category:1950s Arabic-language films

Category:1950s Egyptian films