Al-Yateematain is a 1949 Egyptian

Egyptians

Egyptians are nation an ethnic group made up of Mediterranean North Africans, the indigenous people of Egypt.Egyptian identity is closely tied to geography. The population of Egypt is concentrated in the lower Nile Valley, the small strip of cultivable land stretching from the First Cataract to...

 drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

 film

Film

A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...

 written by Abo El Seoud El Ebiary

Abo El Seoud El Ebiary

Abo El Seoud El Ebiary was an Egyptian comic screenwriter, playwright, lyricist, and also journalist. He discovered the Egyptian comedian Ismail Yasin and wrote most of his movies, as an artistic duet...

 directed by Hassan Al Imam starring Egyptian actress Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama is an Egyptian producer and an acclaimed actress of film, television, and theatre. She was regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from melodramas to historical films and occasional comedies, though her chief successes were romantic dramas...

. The film was based on the novels of Adolphe d'Ennery

Adolphe d'Ennery

Adolphe Philippe d'Ennery or Dennery was a French Jewish dramatist and novelist.Born in Paris, his real surname was Philippe...

 and Eugène Cormon

Eugène Cormon

Pierre-Etienne Piestre, known as Eugène Cormon , was a French dramatist and librettist. He used his mother’s name, Cormon, during his career....

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Plot

Hamama portrays the role of Neimat, a young girl who loses her sight due to a wrong usage of sodium

Sodium

Sodium is a chemical element with the symbol Na and atomic number 11. It is a soft, silvery-white, highly reactive metal and is a member of the alkali metals; its only stable isotope is 23Na. It is an abundant element that exists in numerous minerals, most commonly as sodium chloride...

as eye drops, and who is exploited later by a gangster who forces her to be a beggar in the streets.