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The World on a Dove's Wing

The World on a Dove's Wing

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The World on a Dove's Wing

1989

2h 8m

6.5(4 votes)

Comedy

Drama

Overview

Reda, a taxi driver, drives the wealthy widow Imane who has just returned from abroad. She lets him drive her to run errands, and he helps her break her sweetheart, the engineer Hassan, out from a mental hospital.

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10 featured cast members

Starring

Mahmoud Abdel Aziz

Mahmoud Abdel Aziz

Redha Rushdy

Mervat Amin

Mervat Amin

Iman Khatab

Ahmad Rateb

Ahmad Rateb

Amen

Yousuf Shaaban

Yousuf Shaaban

Hassan Darwesh

Inam Salusah

Inam Salusah

Fawziyah

Sanaa Younes

Sanaa Younes

Tamtam

Shaaban Hussein

Shaaban Hussein

Medhat

Fouad Khalil

Fouad Khalil

Hospital's Manager

Ahmad Bedir

Ahmad Bedir

Jablawi Abu Jabal Al-Jabali

Othman Abdel Monem

Othman Abdel Monem

Sweilem

Creative team

Directed by: Atef El-Tayeb
Written by: Wahid Hamid
Produced by: Mohamed Fawzi

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