Ayyamna al-Holwa

Ayyamna al-Holwa أيامنا الحلوة
Main cast of Ayyamna al-Holwa. From left to right: Ali (Abdel Halim Hafez), Ramzy (Ahmed Ramzy), Hoda (Faten Hamama, and Ahmed (Omar Sharif)
Directed by	Helmy Halim
Produced by	Arab Film (الفلم العربي)
Written by	Ali El Zorkani Helmy Halim
Starring	Faten Hamama Omar Sharif Abdel Halim Hafez Ahmed Ramzy Zeinat Sedki
Release date(s)	1955
Country	Egypt
Language	Arabic

Ayyamna al-Holwa  listen (help·info) (Arabic: أيامنا الحلوة‎, English: Our Best Days or Our Beautiful Days) is a 1955 Egyptian romance/musical film directed and co-written by the Egyptian film director and writer Helmy Halim. It starred Abdel Halim Hafez, Ahmed Ramzy, Omar Sharif, and Faten Hamama. In 1996, during the Egyptian Cinema centennial, this film was selected one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions.

Plot

Faten Hamama plays Hoda, a poor woman who leaves an orphanage to live with three young men (Ahmed, Ali, and Ramzi) in a room on a building rooftop. The three of these men fall in love with her, but she prefers Ahmed, who is played by Omar Sharif, and the others accept that and stay loyal to their friendship. When, one day, Hoda gets sick, the three men urgently work hard to gather enough money to pay for her surgery. The film is not conclusive about what happens to Hoda, but she is supposed to live with her sickness for the rest of her life and can hardly work or get married. What the film shows is the love and fraternity that is created in her friends through her sickness.

Main cast

• Faten Hamama as Hoda
• Omar Sharif as Ahmed
• Abdel Halim Hafez as Ali
• Ahmed Ramzy as Ramzy
• Zahrat El-Ola as Zanouba
• Zeinat Sedki as Bekhaterha

References

• "Film summary" (in Arabic). Faten Hamama's official site. http://www.fatenhamama.com/Arabic/films/AYAMNA-ALHELWA.html. Retrieved 2007-01-29. 
• "Film summary" (in Arabic). Adab wa Fan. http://www.adabwafan.com/display/product.asp?id=41266. Retrieved 2007-01-29. 
• Ayyamna al-Holwa at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• Ayyamna al-Holwa
  أيامنا الحلوة at the Internet Movie Database