EGYPT · 1965

The Sin

Henry Barakat
sexual violence poverty maternal trauma class exploitation moral desperation
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Aziza and her husband Abdullah are both day laborers who work on various farms. When Aziza is brutally raped by a guard while she is picking potatoes in a field, she tries to hide the pregnancy and plans to kill the baby once it is born.

Year1965
CountryEgypt
DirectorHenry Barakat
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