Deprived Lover

Deprived Lover (, transliterated as El-asheeq el-mashroom) is an Egyptian musical comedy drama film released on May 16, 1954. The film is directed and written by El-Sayed Ziada, features a screenplay co-written with Ali El Zorkani, and stars Mohsen Sarhan, Amina Rizk, Kamal el-Shennawi, and Ismail Yassine. The rich protagonist fails to drown his son but is ultimately repaid successfully for his sin by his own son to break a will forbidding the son and his mother from inheriting unless they stay unmarried. Cast Mohsen Sarhan (Fouad Abdelaziz, an engineer) Amina Rizk (Amina, a nurse) Kamal el-Shennawi (Raouf, son of Amina and Fouad) Ismail Yassine (Bassiouni, Tawfik Bey’s chauffeur) Doria Ahmed (Khadra, Tawfik Bey’s maid) Mansa Fahmy (Tawfik Shukri Bey) Hassan Fayek (Hassan Effendi, President of the Association to Fight Poverty, Ignorance, and Disease) Naima Gamal (Naima, a dancer) Fathiah Shahin Mohamed Kamel Afaf Shaker (Nahid) Mohsen Hassanein Gina Katy (dancer) Shafik Galal (singing) Mahmoud al-Araby Samar Ziada (child) Kamal el-Shennawi and Doria Ahmed were among the most famous duos in Egyptian cinema, co-starring in five films between the late 1940’s and mid-1950’s: after Forbidden Happiness (1948), The Mayor’s Daughter (1949), The Adventures of Khadra (1950), and Khadra and the Southern Sinbad (1951), this was their final vehicle. Afaf Shaker (1929-2020), the sister of famed musical actress Shadia, married young to El-Shennawi but only for one month, and Deprived Lover was among her most famed roles. Mansi Fahmy (1890-1955, born Mansi Abiskharon) starred in over 54 works in a career in cinema and theatre stretching back to the 1930’s.