Miss Hanafi

Miss Hanafi (1954)

الآنسة حنفي

Working class Hassan and the rich Hanafi are rivals for Nawaeim's love. Going to the hospital to be treated for a horrible wedding night stomach pain, Hanafi receives an accidental sex change operation. After months of recuperation, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life as an unattractive, mannish woman named Fifi. She becomes the opposite of Hanafi. Where he was brusque, she is flirtatious.

Date of release
1954-07-03
TMDB
6.3 / 10 (7)
Runtime
2h 0m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Fatin Abdel Wahab

Casting

Interesting facts

Miss Hanafi or El Anesa Hanafy is a 1954 Egyptian comedy film written and produced by Galil al-Bendari and directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab about a man who goes through an accidental sex change. Starring by Ismail Yaseen and Omar El-Hariri, the film is based upon an actual 1947 news article about a woman-to-man instance but with the gender switch reversed to be man-to-woman for comedy effect.

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