Al-Malak al-Zalem is a 1954 Egypt

Egypt

Egypt , officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, Arabic: , is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Southwest Asia. Egypt is thus a transcontinental country, and a major power in Africa, the Mediterranean Basin, the Middle East and the Muslim world...

ian crime/drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

. It starred Kamal Al-Shennawi, Seraj Munir

Seraj Munir

Seraj Munir was an Egyptian film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1930 and 1957.-Selected filmography:* The Leech * Al-Malak al-Zalem * Lahn al-Kholood * Kursi al-I`tiraf...

, Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama

Faten Hamama is an Egyptian producer and an acclaimed actress of film, television, and theatre. She was regarded for her performances in a range of film genres, from melodramas to historical films and occasional comedies, though her chief successes were romantic dramas...

, and Mahmoud el-Meliguy

Mahmoud el-Meliguy

Mahmoud el-Meliguy was an Egyptian screenwriter and an actor of film, theatre, and television. He started his career playing minor roles, but achieved stardom in the late 1930s. A popular and award-winning actor, he has acted in hundreds of films and was famous for his evil, villain roles...

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Plot

Nadia's (Faten Hamama) father is prison

Prison

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ed for a murder

Murder

Murder is the unlawful killing, with malice aforethought, of another human being, and generally this state of mind distinguishes murder from other forms of unlawful homicide...

 crime

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...

 he didn't commit. His lawyer

Lawyer

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 fails to get him out of jail, and decides to raise his daughter. Years later, after Nadia has finished her school education, she enters college, where she is assigned to do a research on prisoners and their social effect. In prison, she meets a prisoner who claims to be her father. At first she doesn't believe him, but after checking his documents and ID, she discovers that he's not lying, that he is actually her real father.

She, with the help of her fiancé, played by Kamal Al-Shennawi, seek to free him and prove his innocence. Through their research and after obtaining evidence from old newspaper

Newspaper

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s, they discover that the murderer was not the father, but instead another man (Mahmoud El-Meliguy), who has conspired against the father. In court

Court

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, the father is proved to be innocent, and the true murderer is jailed. Nadia then marries her love.