Memories of Manial people at the movie "Faten Hamama": "Here, I love our Lady of the Arab screen"

It was eight o'clock in the evening of December 29, 1984, and he stood on his fingertips to eagerly watch from the balcony window overlooking Faten Hamama's cinema, awaiting the arrival of his lover, He ran to the lady of the Arab screen, shook him and smiled at him, and then sat a few meters from her to watch the movie where the cinema had opened its doors. "This is how Wael Arabi, owner of one of the shops adjacent to Manial's Cinema, 30 years old, who spoke to Al-Masry Al-Youm after his demolition in the last days

"His laugh was innocent of the children, hoping the film in his name would open his hands." Unfortunately, Wael expressed deep dissatisfaction with the decision to demolish one of the oldest theaters in Egypt. 19659003] Wael, 52, regained his memories of Faten Hamama's film, formerly called Miranda, but was dubbed the deceased artist in recognition of his artistic talent, adding that the cinema had three films a day, and the ticket price ranging from 4 to 8 pounds per category, and says: "The cinema hired a singer, but Makdrch operated to reduce

The 50-year-old man has always attended free movies at the Miranda Cinema, before becoming Faten Hamama, since the director of the cinema my, then uncle Philip, was his father's friend. To see all the films of the lady of the Arab screen: "The Egyptian people loved him, and the proof that the station of the king of the good said Faten Hamama"

Wael: "The owners of the cinema they demolished to take nearly 40 million pounds by Arab banks, investors have transformed the kindergarten streets in recent years of a rare artistic heritage into residential towers On the history, highlighting that this historical impact is not the first in the area to be demolished, where the villa was demolished by Maestro Salim Salim several years ago. "

During the conversation with the son," Haj Arab "He is about 88 years old, and once sitting in the walls of the cinema, he watched the stars of the art, a lot of stories about the cinema since it was "Tariff" and three films a day: two Arabs and one stranger, the cinema was not a favorite pastime.Especially the people of the region who stood at their doors for look at the stars: "We were a penny Farid Shawqi, Kamal al-Shennawi and Mahmoud al-Meligi, ten minutes before the end of the film to avoid contact with the mbades:" I was a fanatic for the first time, and when I was walking down the street, I was looking at pictures that were not included. "

On the other side of the cinema, just off the King's Good Bridge, is the Al-Masry club captain Al-Masri, sitting in his friend's shop, wearing dark glbades and dives every morning, for years he met the "C" "his friends, who were known for their art, like Mohamed Abdel Hali or who loved to play football like Hbadan Hamdy, Sherbini and Sheikh Taha Ismail, remembers well the day of the film premiere while he was sitting second behind the stars of the first net, and recalls his vision of the artist Farouk Al-Fishawi. And said: "Farid Shawqi and Faten Hamama have let me watch the movie, so he keeps the commemorative photos for the first show at home."