Weddad | |
Director: | Fritz Kramp, Gamal Madkoor |
Producer: | Studio Misr Talaat Harb |
Starring: | Umm Kulthum Ahmed Allam |
Distributor: | Studio Misr |
Runtime: | 100 |
Country: | Egypt |
Language: | Arabic |
Screenplay: | Ahmed Rami Ahmed Badrakhan |
Cinematography: | Sammi Bill |
Editing: | Niyazi Moustafa |
Music: | Mohamed El Qasabgi Zakariyya Ahmad Riad Al Sunbati Docteur Bardi |
Weddad (Arabic: وداد, lit. “Song of Hope”) is a 1936 Egyptian romantic musical film.
Weddad, also transliterated as Wydad, is based on a romantic tale inspired by Omar Khayyam's One Thousand and One Nights. The biggest production of its time, it was the film debut of Um Kalthoum.[1] [2] [3] The film's success turned Misr Studios into the top studio in Egypt.
The sports team Wydad AC in Casablanca, Morocco, is named after the film.[4] [5]
In the time of the Mamluk Sultanate, a rich trader named Baher has no choice but to sell his slave Wydad, who he's madly in love with, when he loses everything. But destiny will help them meet again.