Sons of Aristocrats explained

Sons of Aristocrats
Director:	Mohammed Karim
Producer:	Youssef Wahbi
Starring:	Youssef Wahbi Amina Rizk
Studio:	Ramses Film
Distributor:	General Film Distributors
Cinematography:	Gaston Madri
Runtime:	135 minutes
Country:	Egypt
Language:	Egyptian Arabic

Sons of Aristocrats is a 1932 Egyptian film directed by Mohammed Karim.^[1] It is the first Egyptian sound film.^{[2] [3]} It stars Youssef Wahbi and Amina Rizk.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Plot

Hamdi Bey abandoned himself to his lust and fell in love with a French girl, leaving his wife behind him. He was surprised by that girl cheating on him with her lover, so he shot her and was sentenced to prison. After the expiration of his prison term, he decided to return to Egypt again. Hamdi Bey met his inevitable fate, committing suicide under the wheels of a train.

Cast

• Youssef Wahbi
• Amina Rizk
• Rawheya Khaled
• Sirag Mounir
• Anwar Wagdi
• Hassan El Baroudi
• Mansi Fahmi
• Hassan Fayek
• Badia Masabni
• Dawlat Abyad
• Colette D'Arville
• Aziza Shawqi

See also

• Egyptian cinema
• List of Egyptian films of 1932

Notes and References

1. Book: Armes, Roy . Dictionary of African Filmmakers . 2008-07-11 . Indiana University Press . 978-0-253-35116-6 . en.
2. Book: Hammad, Hanan . Unknown Past: Layla Murad, the Jewish-Muslim Star of Egypt . 2022-05-10 . Stanford University Press . 978-1-5036-2978-3 . en.
3. Elsaket . Ifdal . May 2019 . Sound and Desire: Race, Gender, and Insult in Egypt's First Talkie . International Journal of Middle East Studies . en . 51 . 2 . 203–232 . 10.1017/S0020743819000023 . 167006726 . 0020-7438.
4. Book: Elsaket . Ifdal . Cinema in the Arab World: New Histories, New Approaches . Biltereyst . Daniel . Meers . Philippe . 2023-01-26 . Bloomsbury Publishing . 978-1-350-16372-0 . en.
5. Book: Leaman, Oliver . Companion Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film . 2003-12-16 . Routledge . 978-1-134-66251-7 . en.
6. Book: Barham, Jeremy . The Routledge Companion to Global Film Music in the Early Sound Era . 2023-12-22 . Taylor & Francis . 978-0-429-99701-3 . en.