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Tango of Yearning (1998) is the first episode of an autobiographical trilogy on postwar Lebanon, later including Nightfall (2000) and Civil War (2002). Taking its title from Tango of Hope, a classic ballad by Nur al-Huda, the film draws from the director’s reflections on war, love, and cinema, as well as his personal experience at the public television channel TéléLiban. Conjuring various snippets of audiovisual archival material, the film is a poetic elegy to film, Beirut’s movie theaters, and a city undergoing radical transformation. Mohamed Soueid has long been a proponent of the experimental video documentary movement in Lebanon, playing a significant role in the country’s creative renaissance since the end of the civil war. Originally trained as a news videographer during the war, the experience offered him a facility with the medium, which he further developed by making non-linear documentary films with a distinctly personal take.
An Egyptian poet has an affair with a dancer in a cabaret, but she does not pay attention to him or pay him any attention. However, he insists on chasing her. The young man suffers a psychological shock. The treating doctor advises him to travel to Lebanon until he regains his health. He stays in a hotel here, in the hotel. He meets a beautiful girl whom he loves, and it turns out that she is the hotel owner's daughter.
Fouzy Pasha agrees with his daughter that whoever marries her must choose her for her person and love for her, not for her wealth. Indeed, Fouzy Pasha pretends to be bankrupt and even chooses a modest, popular residence and wanders the streets playing the piano while his daughter sings. Love brings his daughter together with a young man from a wealthy family, and the Pasha blesses this love.
After the death of the girl's father, Berlanti, her means of life become more limited and her mother falls ill, so Berlanti is forced to work as a singer so that she can be treated. The lawyer Sami marries her, and as events unfold, Berlanti sees that she is standing in the way of Sami's success. She sacrifices her reputation so that he can leave her. He believes this and expels her. He marries the girl, Samiha, and as events develop, Berlanti is accused of murder.
Two chemists working at the same laboratory compete over the heart of the daughter of the laboratory owner. When the girl chooses one, the other gets jealous and ploys a scheme that aggravates and leads to a great explosion and an even greater tragedy.
Princess Nour Al-Doha, Princess of the Sultanate of Java, is a guest at one of the grand hotels in Egypt. One day, Hamida, the fruit merchant, flees to this hotel and meets the princess there, who resembles her to the point of being identical. The princess asks Hamida to replace her on official visits, and events escalate.
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Hoda, a student, lives in Port Said with her widowed father, Fathy Al-Mahdawi, the owner of a supply and export company. Naima, an employee in the company, tricks Fathy until he falls in love with her and marries her. Hoda objects because of the difference in class. The stepmother treats her stepdaughter badly, which prompts her to travel to her aunt in Alexandria and join the university there, where she meets the sea captain Shukry, the brother of Samira, her colleague at the college.
A struggle for life and for love.
When Arna'out Pasha learns that his son is married to a dancer in secret and that they have a child, he threatens to cut his son off. The son sends his family to Lebanon but as war breaks out, he loses contact with them.
The film's events revolve around the singer Farid, who is in love with one of the dancers, who decides to travel on an artistic tour. He proposes to her to marry her after she returns from the travel, but he falls under psychological pressure that forces him to marry another girl who also works as a singer. After the dancer returns from the travel, she discovers something... Her lover's marriage, so she leaves him, but later she discovers that things are not as they seem, and that the singer's uncle loves the dancer and wants to marry her.
Afrah is a music teacher, her father is an obscure musician, and her sister Nahid works in Hindawi stores. The two sisters fall in love with a playful and frivolous young man, and when they learn the truth, Nabil has fallen in love with Afrah. The father works hard to achieve fame and Nabil marries Afrah.
The love between two singers is tarnished when jealousy rears its head, as each one begins to be jealous of the other's fans. After a violent quarrel between them, the singer thinks that her sweetheart is cheating on her. She runs away and meets a deceitful man who drags her into his reckless life.
Dorya is a young singer, who's in a romantic relationship with Hamdi, but Mstkawi is trying to keep them apart to win the heart of Dorya. He succeeds in keeping Hamdi away from Dorya, which turns her life upside down.
A budding singer falls in love with his colleague in the dance troupe and they agree to get married. A famous dancer joins the troupe and falls in love with the singer, but he rejects her. The dancer decides to take revenge and create a quarrel between him and his lover.
When Narges, the only child of wealthy parents, goes missing, a middle-class man takes her in and raises her. As she falls in love with a poor guy, her parents find her and bring her back. A wealthy guy proposes to her but she remains faithful to her old sweetheart.
Lawyer Raouf meets Yasriya Hanem, the daughter of Hassan Bey Abu El-Dahab, and falls in love with her and tries to reach her. Raouf bets with his friend that Raouf will marry Yasriya. A quarrel occurs that ends with the friend's lover shooting Raouf. The sound of the bullets restores his cousin's sight and she nurses him. Raouf marries her after he is certain that his love for her is stronger than his love for Yasriya.
A nurse lives in a popular neighborhood and loves her neighbor, the carpenter, and her mother stands guard against this marriage. During her work, she meets a girl who looks like her. She is the daughter of a wealthy man, but she has fallen into sin and is preparing for her wedding. They agree to exchange places for a while so that they live each other’s lives, which leads to many... Of troubles and ironies that were not taken into account.
A woman is falsely imprisoned for killing a man, she escapes and travels to Lebanon after changing her name, until she is arrested there and imprisoned for the second time, whereupon a professor of forensic psychology attempts to unmask the real criminal who killed that man .
Engineer Adel's journey from Europe ends and he returns to Cairo. He begins searching for his beloved Wedad, whom he had proposed to the wealthy lady, Nemat. The truth becomes clear to him: the girl he proposed to is not Nemat's daughter, but her legitimate daughter is Souad. As for Wedad, she left home to work as a singer on the radio and began to make her artistic path.
