The Place of Weeping Lovers

The Place of Weeping Lovers

1966 · 95 min · ★ 7.0 · Drama, Romance

A young engineer whose wife dies in a car accident, and leaves his young daughter, and because he is an petroleum engineer, he has to be absent from the house, so he brings a maid to the house, and takes her with him to his home in Suez where he works, on one of the nights he drunk, the engineer rapes the maid, and when she carries the fetus he requests Among them is the speed of getting rid of it, and when he presents it to the doctor, the latter informs him that abortion is dangerous for her life, which puts the man in a crisis.

Directed by Hasan El-Saifi · Written by Mohamed Osman

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