| Cairo 30 | |
| Director: | Salah Abu Seif |
| Producer: | Gamal El Leithy |
| Screenplay: | Salah Abu Seif Naguib Mahfouz |
| Music: | Fouad El Zahry |
| Cinematography: | Wahid Farid |
| Runtime: | 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,[1] and based on Naguib Mahfouz's 1945 novel Modern Cairo.[2] 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.[3]
The film takes place in the 1930’s, 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.