Overview
In Alexandria, Fatma needs money for her youngest son's weekly kidney dialysis. She travels to Cairo to beg away from home, after she collects enough money she returns to discover her son's death. She decides to protect her two daughters from poverty so she returns to Cairo to continue to beg.
Fun facts
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Nominations
Nominated for the International Submission to the Academy Awards (2012)
Details
- Director
- Writer
- Sayed RagabWriter
- Original title
- الشوق
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 5, 2011
- Original language
- Arabic
Cast
Sawsan BadrFatma
RubyShouq
Sayed RagabShouq's Father
Ahmed AzmyHussein
Mohamed RamadanSalem
Salwa Mohamed AliSalem's Mother- Ibrahim El Nagary
Doaa TeamaRagaa
Boutros GhalySaleh
Youssef IsmailSalem's Father
Arefa Abdul Rasoul
Salwa Azzab
Kamal SolimanHameda
Menha ZaytoonTahya
Magdy Al SebaeiHussein's Father
Ahmed KamalIbrahim
Maher Selim
Magdi Tawfik
Samar Abdel Wahhab
Eid Abu Al-Hamd
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