The Barred Road
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| Directed by | Salah Abouseif |
| Written by | Ihsan Abdel Quddous El Sayed Bedeir Naguib Mahfouz |
| Produced by | Abdelhalim Nasr Ittihad Elfananeen |
| Starring | Faten Hamama Ahmed Mazhar |
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| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
The Barred Road (Egyptian Arabic: الطريق المسدود, translit. Al-Tareeq al-Masdood) is a 1958 Egyptian drama/romance film.
Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous. The film was co-written by El Sayed Bedeir and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz. It starred Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar. The film received an award from the Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema and was selected one of the top 150 films in Egypt in 1996.