Aghla Min Hayati

Aghla Min Hayati (English: Dearer than my Life, Egyptian Arabic: أغلي من حياتي) is a 1965 Egyptian romantic drama film based on Fannie Hurst's novel Back street and directed by Mahmoud Zulfikar.^[1][2] It stars Salah Zulfikar and Shadia.^[3][4][5][6]

Aghla Min Hayati
Theatrical release poster
Egyptian Arabic	أغلي من حياتي
Directed by	Mahmoud Zulfikar
Written by	Fathi Zaki Mohammed Abu Youssef
Starring	Salah Zulfikar Shadia Hussein Riad
Cinematography	Mahmoud Nasr
Edited by	Said El Sheikh
Music by	Andre Ryder
Production company	Cairo Cinema Corporation
Distributed by	Cairo Cinema Corporation
Release date	1965 (1965)
Country	Egypt
Language	Egyptian Arabic

Plot

Ahmed and Mona live a strong love story since childhood in Marsa Matrouh, and the only witness to their love was Naguib's uncle.. Ahmed proposes to Mona, but her father refuses his request on the pretext that Ahmed is still a student and that he has a long time to study abroad and that Mona is engaged to another person, Ahmed despairs Mona's father agreed to marry and travel abroad to complete his studies. As for Mona, she did not marry the other person. When he learned about her love story for Ahmed, and during Ahmed's travels, Mona learned that he married his son, the manager of the company in which he works, then Mona's father died, so she left Marsa Matrouh and worked in Cairo as a teacher.  Ahmed has returned from abroad after seven years have passed, and he has two children, Adel and Mona. One day, Mona meets Ahmed by chance and learns that she has not married and that she still loves him. Then they marry and their marriage remains a secret that no one knows about except Naguib's uncle. After several years, Adel, Ahmed's son discovered his father's relationship with Mona and they confronted her and asked her to leave his father, so his father got angry so much that Ahmed had to announce in front of his son that Mona was his wife, and the matter ended with Ahmed's illness and a heart attack as a result of what happened, then his death after he instructed his son to take care of Mona.^[7][8][9]

Primary cast

• Salah Zulfikar as Ahmed
• Shadia as Mona
• Hussein Riad as Naguib
• Madiha Salem as Mona, Ahmed's daughter
• Sanaa Mazhar as Seham, Ahmed's wife
• Galal Issa as Adel, Ahmed's son

Reception

The love story between Ahmed and Mona became one of Egyptian cinema classic love stories. And the two main characters Salah Zulfikar and Shadia actually married while filming.^[10][11][12]

References

1. Dāwūd, ʻAbd al-Ghanī; الغني, داود، عبد (1997). من أجندة السينما المصرية: الراحلون في مئة سنة، ٦٩٨١-٦٩٩١ (in Arabic). وزارة الثقافة، المركز القومي للسينما،.
2. قاسم, محمود (2018-11-24). الاقتباس " المصادر الأجنبية في السينما المصرية " (in Arabic). وكالة الصحافة العربية.
3. Aghla min hayati (1965) - IMDb, retrieved 2021-08-13
4. "Dearer Than My Life (1965) - Movie". www.moviefone.com. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
5. "فيديو- ابنة صلاح ذو الفقار: فيلم "أغلى من حياتي" كان تحديًا من والدي لأشقائه | خبر". www.filfan.com. 2021-01-20. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
6. Armes, Roy (2008). Dictionary of African Filmmakers. Indiana University Press. ISBN 978-0-253-35116-6.
7. Dearer Than My Life (1965), retrieved 2021-08-28
8. "10 times Salah Zulfakar pioneered best scenes in Egyptian cinema". EgyptToday. 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2021-08-29.
9. Aal, Ghada Abdel; Eltahawy, Nora (2010-10-15). I Want to Get Married!: One Wannabe Bride's Misadventures with Handsome Houdinis, Technicolor Grooms, Morality Police, and Other Mr. Not Quite Rights. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292-72397-9.
10. "حكاية قصة حب صلاح ذو الفقار وشادية فى"أغلى من حياتى" التى تحولت لحقيقة". اليوم السابع. 2016-12-22. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
11. "أبطالها أحمد ومنى.. قصة حب شادية وصلاح ذو الفقار". جريدة الدستور (in Arabic). 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2021-08-13.
12. "فيلم اغلى من حياتى - اليوم السابع". اليوم السابع | Youm7. Retrieved 2021-08-19.

External links

• Aghla Min Hayati at IMDb
• Dearer than my Life on elCinema