| Cairo 30 | |
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| Directed by | Salah Abu Seif |
| Screenplay by | Salah Abu Seif Naguib Mahfouz |
| Based on | |
| Produced by | Gamal El Leithy |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Wahid Farid |
| Music by | Fouad El Zahry |
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Running time | 130 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
Cairo 30 (Arabic: القاهرة 30, translit. Al-Qāhira 30) is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Salāḥ Abu Seif, and based on Naguib Mahfouz's 1945 novel Modern Cairo. The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominée.
The film takes place in the 1930s, when a young man named Mahjoub Abdeldayem (Hamdy Ahmed) comes from Upper Egypt to the slums of Cairo and gets to know a native of his village (Salem al-Ikhshidi) who offers a job lead. The job is to marry Ihsan (Soad Hosny), mistress of Qasim Bey (Ahmed Mazhar, on condition that Qasim visits her once a week.
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