The Collar and the Bracelet

The year is 1933 and the place is the village of Karnak near Luxor. A woman called Hazina lives there. Her husband is paralysed and bedbound. The weight of the household is on her. They have a son as well, but he is far away. He went to Sudan to work. The family is waiting for him to come back. There are three generations of women in the house. Hazina, her daughter and her granddaughter. All three contend with the pressure around them. One of the girls is married off and the marriage does not work. The granddaughter becomes pregnant outside marriage. Her uncle, learning of it, kills her. The film is adapted from the novel by Yahya Taher Abdullah. Sherihan and Ferdoos Abdel Hamid appear in the hundred and fifteen minute film, an Egyptian production Khairy Beshara finished in 1986.