The Savage (1979)

6.0/10 122 min Music Drama

Overview

Baheya, a poor singing and dancing girl in a family of carnival entertainers, falls in love with a wealthy writer named Ashraf. She later takes a factory job and is followed there by Ashraf; he eventually asks her to marry him. Baheya agrees to the proposal. When Ashraf presents her as his intended bride to his mother Eqbal she objects because of their social and class differences.

Cast

Soad Hosny

Baheya

Mahmoud Abdel Aziz

Ashraf

Laila Fawzy

Eqbal

Tawfiq Al-Deqen

Baheya's father

Ragaa Hussein

Nossa

Abdul Rahman Abu Zahra

Naima Wasfi

Ibrahim Abdulraziq

Souad Nasr

Ahmed Abdel Wareth

Huda Zaki

Mona Qattan

Mahmoud Abu-Zeid

Mahmoud El Qala'awy

Ahmed Akl

Ahdy Sadek

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