Streets of Fire
Streets of Fire (, transliterated as Shawera men nar) is an Egyptian film released on March 12, 1984. The film is directed by Samir Seif and features a screenplay adapted from the film Irma La Douce, directed by Billy Wilder. It stars Nour El-Sherif and Madiha Kamel.
Plot
In the 1940s, a policeman named Imam al-Sayyid al-Masry moves from Ismailia to Cairo to work in the red-light district. He falls in love with a prostitute named Nousa, who works for a pimp named Jalal, without knowing her profession. Imam defends her from a British soldier who blocks her path in the street and assaults her, thereby losing his place on the police force after a trial. Thus out of work, Imam returns to the neighborhood to search for work, ultimately becoming a pimp himself and winning a turf war with Jalal. Imam becomes a neighborhood magistrate, abolishes prostitution in the district, turns his brothel into a nightclub, and joins the guerrillas resisting British occupation.
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author | Ahmed Saleh |
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director | Samir Seif |
editor | Salwa Bakr |
genre | drama |
keywords | british army british occupation british soldier cairo history of egypt under the british ismailia lose magistrate out of work pimp police force prostitute red-light district turf war win |
musicBy | Baligh Hamdi |
producer | Wassef Fayez |
productionCompany | Studio Misr |