El Sett (2025)
الست
The voice they couldn't silence. The star they couldn't contain.
Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian singer the world has ever known, takes to the stage one final time for her most important performance yet, one with the potential to heal a nation broken by the shadow of a great defeat. As she slowly steps onto the stage to deafening chants and applause, fearful for her health and country, a legend finds herself walking down memory lane, reminiscing on her humble beginnings and the seven decade journey of triumphs, failures, defying social conventions, and loves lost that followed.
- Date of release
- 2025-12-10
- TMDB
- 6.4 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 2h 41m
- Genres
- Drama, History, Music
- Director
- Marwan Hamed
Casting
- Mona Zaki — Umm Kulthum
- Mohamed Farag — Ahmed Ramy
- Tamer Nabil — Mohamed El Qasabgi
- Sayed Ragab — Ibrahim El-Beltagy
- Ahmed Khalid Saleh — Khaled Ibrahim Al-Beltagy
- Ahmed Helmy
- Karim Abdel Aziz — Sherif Sabry Basha
- Amr Saad — The president Gamal and El Nasser
- Nelly Karim — Queen Nazli
- Amina Khalil
- Asser Yassin — samie
- Ahmed Amin — Hassan Al-Hafnawi
Interesting facts
- Box office: $2.4M
- Budget: $8M
- Earned 0.3× its budget
Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Data from Wikidata.
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