Dananeir

Dananeir (1940)

دنانير

A concubine to a ruling family is challenged when the family is overthrown.

Date of release
1940-09-29
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 30m
Genres
Drama, Music, Romance
Director
Ahmad Badrakhan

Casting

Interesting facts

Dananeer is a 1940 Egyptian musical film directed by Ahmad Badrakhan, and written by Ahmad Rami. It stars Umm Kulthum in the title role of a Bedouin girl whose singing talent elevates her from the desert to the caliph's court. The historical romance is set in early 9th-century Iraq, during the reign of the fifth Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid, whereas the title character is a semi-fictionalized Dananir al-Barmakiyya, qiyan musician, singer and poet.

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