Native Name: | الحقيقة العارية |
Director: | Atef Salem |
Producer: | Magda al-Sabahi |
Runtime: | 115 minutes |
Country: | Egypt |
Language: | Egyptian Arabic |
The Naked Truth (Arabic: الحقيقة العارية, transliterated as El-Hakika El-Aria) is an Egyptian film released on December 16, 1963. The film is directed by Atef Salem, features a screenplay by Mohamed Osman, and stars Magda, Ihab Nafea, Seham Fathi, Faten El Shoubashi, and Abdel Moneim Ibrahim.[1] In 1975, the film was also released in the Soviet Union.[2]
Amal Abdelhamid is a woman who wants to be independent and shape her destiny without men, so she stays unmarried and works successfully as a tourist guide. One day, while she guides a tour group on a trip to Aswan, everything changes when she falls for the engineer Ahmed Refaat (Ihab Nafea). He is working on building the Aswan Dam and changes her ideas about men completely.[3]