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Miss Hanafi is a film of genre Comedy directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab with Ismail Yasin
Miss Hanafi (1954)
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Directed by Fatin Abdel Wahab
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Rating54%
Miss Hanafi or El Anesa Hanafy (Arabic: الآنسة حنفي) 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.
Miss Hanafi is listed among the most important 100 films in the history of Egyptian cinema. In his book Dream Makers on the Nile, author Mustafa Darwish called it Ismail Yasseen's "most famous and funniest film".
Synopsis
Working class Hassan (Omar al-Hariri) and the rich Hanafi are rivals for Nawaeim's (Magda) 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.Actors
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