She lived for love

She lived for love

She lived for love

1959 · 100 min

The events revolve around Hosni, who suffers from a complexity towards women since childhood, which made him not trust any woman, he travels to Cairo to study, where he gets to know his neighbor Zainab, and begins to love her

Directed by ElSayed Bedir

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