The Barred Road (1958)

Name: The Barred Road
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 1958-04-22

1h 55m

Running Time

Plot.

Faiza is raised in a family where the mother and the two sisters work in illegal acts. They try to drag her in with them but she refuses. She studies to become a school teacher and decides to move to the countryside away from them, but she finds other temptations that try to lure her in.

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Details.

Release Date
April 22, 1958

Original Name
الطريق المسدود

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 55m

Genres
Romance Drama

Last updated: 2025-02-11

Wiki.

The Barred Road (Egyptian Arabic: الطريق المسدود, translit. Al-Tareeq al-Masdood) is a 1958 Egyptian drama/romance film.

Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous. The film was co-written by El Sayed Bedeir and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz. It starred Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar. The film received an award from the Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema and was selected one of the top 150 films in Egypt in 1996.