El Ard el Tayeba explained

El Ard el Tayeba
Native Name:	Arabic: الأرض الطيبة
Director:	Mahmoud Zulfikar
Producer:	Mahmoud Zulfikar
Cinematography:	Mostafa Hassan
Editing:	Albert Naguib
Music:	Andre Ryder
Studio:	Amir Film (Mahmoud Zulfikar)
Distributor:	National Company for Distribution and Trade
Runtime:	120 minutes
Country:	Egypt
Language:	Egyptian Arabic

El Ard el Tayeba (aliases: The Good Land or The Good Earth, Arabic: الأرض الطيبة, translit. Al-Ard Al-Tayyiba)^{[1] [2] [3]} is a 1954 Egyptian film written, directed and produced by Mahmoud Zulfikar.^{[4] [5] [6] [7]}

Synopsis

Saadia discovers that she is the daughter of a rich man and has a huge inheritance after his death. Her stepmother Baheega hates her, specially after Saadia became a rich girl. Baheega plots to kill Saadia to win her inheritance with the help of her lover and her brother. Here come the good man Hussein to rescue her.

Crew

• Directed by: Mahmoud Zulfikar
• Story: Mahmoud Zulfikar
• Screenplay: Mahmoud Zulfikar, Youssef Gohar
• Production: Mahmoud Zulfikar
• Editing: Albert Naguib
• Production company: Amir Film (Mahmoud Zulfikar)
• Distribution: National Company for Distribution and Trade

Main cast

• Mariam Fakhr Eddine as Saadia
• Kamal El-Shennawi as Hussein Heshmat
• Hussein Riad as El Pasha
• Zuzu Madi as Baheega
• Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy as Zaki
• Soraya Fakhri as Hassanein's wife
• Fouad El-Mohandes as Bassiouni
• Abdulaziz Ahmed as Hassanein

External links

• El Ard el Tayeba on elCinema

Notes and References

1. Book: Armes, Roy . Dictionary of African Filmmakers . 2008 . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-35116-6 . en.
2. Book: arabe (France), Institut du monde . Egypte, 100 ans de cinéma . 1995 . IMA . 978-2-906062-81-8 . fr.
3. Book: Brière, Jean-François . Dictionnaire des cinéastes africains de long métrage . 2008-01-01 . KARTHALA Editions . 978-2-8111-4250-6 . fr.
4. Book: Gordon, Joel S. . Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt . 2002 . Middle East Documentation Center . 978-0-9708199-0-1 . en.
5. Web site: Al-Ard Al-Tayeba Film - 1954 - Dhliz - Leading Egyptian movie and artist database . 2022-09-27 . dhliz.com.
6. Web site: Good Earth, The [el-ard et-tayeba] (1954) - (Mariam Fakhr Eddine) oversize stone litho Egyptian movie poster F, EX $125 * ]. 2022-09-27 . www.musicman.com . 2022-09-27 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220927092411/https://www.musicman.com/00pic/11659.html . dead .
7. Book: قاسم, محمود . الأديان على شاشة السينما المصرية . 2018-01-01 . وكالة الصحافة العربية . ar.