The Barred Road

The Barred Road (Arabic: الطريق المسدود, translit. Al-Tareeq al-Masdood) is a 1958 Egyptian drama/romance film.

The Barred Road
The Barred Road VHS cover
Directed by	Salah Abouseif
Written by	Ihsan Abdel Quddous El Sayed Bedeir Naguib Mahfouz
Produced by	Abdelhalim Nasr Ittihad Elfananeen
Starring	Faten Hamama Ahmed Mazhar
Release date	22 April 1958 (1958-04-22)
Country	Egypt
Language	Arabic

Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous.^[1] The film was co-written by El Sayed Bedeir and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz. It starred Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar. The film received an award from the Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema and was selected one of the top 150 films in Egypt in 1996.^[2]

Plot

Faten Hamama plays Fayza, a young student who lives with her family after the death of her father. Left with no money, her mother (Zouzou Mady) is forced to turn her house into an illegal gambling house. Fayza opposes her mother's solution. Munir (Ahmed Mazhar) is a writer who meets Fayza and falls in love with her but she rejects him. Fayza decides to leave to the countryside where she works as a teacher in a small school. Fayza gets into trouble in the school and, desperate and hopeless, decides to walk in her mother's path. Munir convinces Fayza to stop.^[2]

Cast

• Faten Hamama as Fayza
• Ahmed Mazhar as Munir
• Shukry Sarhan as Ahmed
• Zouzou Mady as Fayza's mother
• Khayria Ahmed
• Ferdoos Mohammed
• Tewfik El Dekn
• Naima Wasfy