Sonya and the Madman (1977)
An adaptation of “Crime and Punishment", a young educated man's descent into madness and paranoia after committing a crime, and finding comfort in the company of kind-hearted but abused poor prostitute in the middle of his turmoil.
Director:
Hossam El Dine Mostafa
Writer:
Mahmoud Diab
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Mahmood Yaseen as Mokhtar |
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Naglaa Fathy as Sonyah |
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Nour El-Sherif as Rafeeq |
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Saeed Saleh as Azmy |
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Emad Hamdy as Hussein |
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Naima ElSoghier as Adalat |
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Soheir Reda as Om Ghareeb |
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Nazim Sharawy as Heshmat |
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Hayat Kandel as لواحظ |
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Abdel Warith Assir as بدران |
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Raoheya Khaled as رتيبة |
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Hussein Abdel Fattah as طفل |
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Saleh al-Eskandarani as |
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Ibrahim Qadry as |
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Ezzat Abdel Gawad as حسن |
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Badria Abdel Gawad as |
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Sabrien as |
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Lucy as |
| Writing | Mahmoud Diab | Dialogue |
| Directing | Hossam El Dine Mostafa | Director |
| Writing | Fyodor Dostoevsky | Novel |
| Writing | Mahmoud Diab | Screenplay |
| Camera | Ibrahim Saleh | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Omar Khorsheid | Original Music Composer |
| Crew | Andrea Zendilse | Mixing Engineer |
| Sound | Abdulaziz Emara | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | جلال عبدالحميد | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | Mohamed Soliman | Sound Assistant |
| Sound | جليلة الحريري | Sound Assistant |
| Directing | Ahmed El-Sabawy | Assistant Director |
| Directing | Naguib Eskandar | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Hussein Ahmed | Editor |
| Editing | Marcel Saleh | Negative Cutter |
| Costume & Make-Up | حمدي رأفت | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Nadia Seddiq | Hairdresser |
| Production | Hossam El Dine Mostafa | Producer |
| Art | Abdel Monem Shokry | Decorator |
| Camera | Samir Bahzan | Camera Operator |
| Production | Galal Zahra | Casting |