Our Blessed Aunt Explained

Native Name:ست الستات
Director:Raafat el-Mehi
Cinematography:Ayman Abu el-Makarem
Music:Fathi al-Khamisi
Editing:Ahmed Daoud
Runtime:123 minutes
Studio:Studio 13
Country:Egypt
Language:Arabic

Our Blessed Aunt (Arabic: ست الستات, transliterated as Sett al-Settat) is an Egyptian comedy, drama film released on June 29, 1998. The film is directed and written by Raafat el-Mehi and stars Laila Elwi, Maged el-Masry, and Magda El-Khatib. The story concerns a young Abdelaziz, who returns to Cairo from another unspecified Arab country. Coming back to his aunt Fakiha's apartment, he discovers that it has become a brothel run by a madam who denies that she is related to him.

Cast

Synopsis

The comedy's protagonist Abdelaziz (Maged el-Masry) returns to Cairo after working in another unnamed Arab country. Going to the apartment of his aunt Fakiha (Magda el-Khatib), he discovers that it has become a brothel. Lola (Laila Elwi), one of the prostitutes there, tries to convince him to marry her. He has them make the place a pension, but they carry on their old profession anyway. Everyone is arrested, and Abdelaziz discovers a big surprise.

Legacy

Critic Nisreen al-Rashidi cited the film among others on the website 3ain, remarking that:

Egyptian cinema has presented women and dealt with their problems throughout its history, even addressing them by name, sometimes as “mara” [woman] and sometimes as “sitt” [lady]…Here we monitor ten films using the word “sitt” from the earliest days of the silver screen to today.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Al-Rashidi . Nisreen . حب وغرام وانتقام.. 10 أفلام انتصر فيها كيد الستات على الرجال . 6 June 2022 . 3ain . October 4, 2017.