A Wife from Paris

A Wife from Paris is a 1966 Egyptian romantic comedy film directed by Atef Salem.

Cast

Salah Zulfikar as Dr. Wagih
Roushdy Abaza as Nagi
Fouad El Mohandes as Daoud
Nabila Ebeid as Samia
Karima El Sherif
Ahmed al-Haddad
Amin El-Heinedy
Abdel Ghani Nagdi
Hussein Ismail
Hassan Atla
Sayed Abdullah
Poussi
Ibrahim Hechmat
Alwiya Gamil
Eskandar Mansy
Mary Bay Bay

Synopsis

An oasis named Paris hosts a small town in the New Valley Governorate. As the 1952 Egyptian revolution brews, Dr. Wagih flees there, but his wife Samia refuses to follow him under pressure from her mother. Samia returns to Cairo, and Dr. Wagih is left to get to know his new neighbors. These include Nagi, an engineer embittered by a woman’s betrayal, and Daoud, a principal and head teacher at the local primary school looking for a wife who finds one in town. Samia returns to live with her husband, and Nagi marries a new social worker who charms away his surliness and also happens to be named Samia.