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Your Eyes Shining

1982 · 110 min

A slow-burning melodrama of love and betrayal, with emotional peaks that linger.

Directed by
Mohamed Abdelaziz
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Nour El-Sherif, Hussein Fahmy, Madiha Kamel
Overview
Salwa is a flight attendant who marries the pilot, Walid. When she finds out the truth about his marriage to his cousin Ragia and that he has a child with her, she asks for a divorce, but he refuses. After a plane crash, Walid is presumed dead and Salwa remarries.

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Directed by
Mohamed Abdelaziz
Genres
Drama, Romance
Starring
Nour El-Sherif, Hussein Fahmy, Madiha Kamel
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • betrayal
  • family
  • grief
  • identity
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore mild
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance7
Tension5
Darkness5
Complexity5
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Mohamed Abdelaziz
Written by
Ahmad Saleh
Starring
Nour El-Sherif, Hussein Fahmy, Madiha Kamel, Laila Hamada, Ragaa Al-Giddawy, Abdel Hamid Anis, Nadia Rafeek
Runtime
110 min
Country
Egypt
Languages
Arabic

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