A Bullet in the Heart (play)

A Bullet in the Heart
Directed byKamal Hussein
Written byTawfiq El-Hakim
StarringSalah Zulfikar
Production
companies
General Egyptian Organization for Cinema and Theater
Distributed byGeneral Egyptian Organization for Cinema and Theater
Release date
  • 22 November 1964 (1964-11-22)
Running time
3 hours
CountryEgypt
LanguageArabic

A Bullet in the Heart (Arabic: رصاصة في القلب; translit.Rosasa Fil Qalb) is a 1964 Egyptian comedy play written by Tawfiq El-Hakim and directed by Kamal Hussein.[1][2][3] It is based on Tawfiq El-Hakim's 1926 play with the same name.[4][5]

It stars Salah Zulfikar in the leading role. This play is one of three plays of El-Hakim, in which the conclusion was open and unconvincing in that way,[6] and it was Salah Zulfikar's theatrical debut.[7][8][9][10]

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  2. ^ Salem, Ali; Sālim, ʻAlī (2001). A Drive to Israel: An Egyptian Meets His Neighbors. Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. ISBN 978-965-224-050-7.
  3. ^ "Egyptian actress Laila Taher recovers from Covid-19: 'I am feeling better'". The National. 2021-07-04. Retrieved 2022-04-15.
  4. ^ Ḥakīm, Tawfīq; Yaʻqūb, Lūsī (1987). عصفور الشرق، توفيق الحكيم: "في حوارات حول أفكاره و آثاره" (in Arabic). الدار المصرية اللبنانية،.
  5. ^ الغد (in Arabic). 1965.
  6. ^ al-Masraḥ (in Arabic). al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Taʼlīf wa-al-Nashr. October 1965.
  7. ^ Starkey, Starkey Paul (2016-06-02). Sonallah Ibrahim: Rebel with a Pen. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 978-1-4744-0580-5.
  8. ^ Hutchins, William M.; Hutchins, William Maynard (2003). Tawfiq Al-Hakim: A Reader's Guide. Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 978-0-89410-885-3.
  9. ^ Ḥakīm, Tawfīq (1981). Plays, Prefaces & Postscripts of Tawfiq Al-Hakim: Theater of the mind. Three Continents Press. ISBN 978-0-89410-148-9.
  10. ^ قاموس تالمسرح (in Arabic). al-Hayʼah al-Miṣrīyah al-ʻĀmmah lil-Kitāb. 1996. ISBN 978-977-01-4269-1.