Amira My Love (Amira Hobbi Ana)

Soad Hosni

AMIRA, MY OWN LOVE

Hey, people of the household

Mom, Samia, Nagwa

Rise and shine, it's daytime

Based on Naguib Mahfouz's Mirrors

Sameh, get up, dear

- Good morning, mom - Morning, Amira

Hussein Fahmy

Suheir El-Bably

Emad Hamdy

With: Kareema Mokhtar

Samir Ghanem

Khaireya Ahmed. Mahmoud Shukuku

Screenplay & Dialogue: Salah Jahine

Mamdouh El-Leithy. Hassan El-Imam

Cinematography: Abd El-Haleem Nasr

A film by: Hassan El-Imam

- Good morning - The best of mornings

"General Organization for Production Affairs"

- Sorry, I'm a little late - Say good morning first

- Good morning - Wonderful morning

Apologize for your tardiness first

I am sorry. The metro broke down and...

Never mind. Be as late as you please. It doesn't matter

It's hardly worth the trouble

Today my pantyhose, worth 1 20 piasters, got torn on the bus

The government should make women stay home

and send them their paychecks

We don't complain of women on buses

If the men stayed at home all will be right

How nice! One could wait at home for Miss Right

Oh my! They still didn't get me a desk? I have been hired here for 20 days!

- You want a desk? - Yes

Slip a fifty piaster note to Sakr

and he'll get you the desk of the chairman

Anything for the lady

At your service, lady. No worries

As a poet I don't know once said:

My heart falls hardly in love

at the sight of a dress

Fine, Sakr, take this so you can get me a desk

- Alright, with pleasure - And here's another 1 0 piasters

- Why? - To get me a chair

Nice one!

Good morning, Miss Amira

Morning...

Mr. Ibrahim

Won't you find me anything to do? I was hired 20 days ago

May I train her in my sector today, sir?

Frankly, the tasks required by this department take two to perform

But they keep getting us new employees

who end up eating sandwiches,

and knitting

- So is there nothing at all I can do? - Why the rush?

You still have 38 years to go

The trip is ruined. Only three people got tickets

- Oh my. Who else besides me? - You, Mr. Ibrahim and myself

- That's enough - How so?

What of Saneyya, Fathy, Tareq and Mr. Talaat?

Leave this to me. I have nothing else to do

- Good idea, give it your best shot - May I have that roll?

- Mr. Talaat - Yes?

You must change scenes to reinvigorate yourself

Sure. I'll come for your sake alone

I'd need nine tickets for me and my 8 kids

- You have eight kids?! - Yes

May God help you!

- That's one ticket - I'll leave them at home

No, you must take your kids out

- Really? - Of course

- At your service, Miss Amira - Thanks

Come on, Saneyya, is your money not out yet?

- I am not used to going out alone - Afraid you'll be kidnapped?

No, for propriety's sake

No kidding. Come on, out with the money

I promise you'll enjoy it, have no fear

Where is that money?

Wouldn't it be better spent on pantyhose or clothes?

You have plenty

No thanks, I had breakfast. Hand me the fifty piasters

But that's too much, Amira

Too much? Think of the fresh air you'll inhale

Fresh air for fifty piasters? I'd rather not breathe

I'll go breathe in a lamb-chop, or a chicken

I swear I have but 3 cigarettes to last the month

Oh, come on. Fathy will pay for you

Mr. Fathy is my best pal, pay her and I will get them from you later

- Willing to pay for two tickets? - Why? ls the trip by weight?

Weight? If that were so, you'd have to pay for 12

- Here, give me half a ticket - Half? Why?

- I'm a cop - Only you could've done it!

- You'll get everyone to join - Just show me the way

Shall I go with her, Mr. Ibrahim?

Go

- You'll pitch in with your efforts - Alright, after you

- Support the spring trip - Where are you going?

- To Qanater - Sounds okay

- Will you be there? - Of course

- Give me a ticket - Name?

Ismail

And three for me

That's it, fellows. You must take your families out

Right, and you stay home

Give me eleven, here's the money

You should then go to the family planning center

- Good morning, sir - Good morning. Hello

- The spring trip - What of it?

- It sends its regards, sir - What did you say?

No, sir, we want you to join in

Oh, right. Actually I encourage trips and social activities

When all employees join such trips,

they are practically applying the socialism we all call for

Of course, sir, you are the first socialist in the department

Thanks a lot, son. By the way, what's your name?

I'm Ta... Taher Hammouda, sir

- And you, my pretty? - Amira Salem

- Thanks for considering me, Miss Amira - No worries, sir

Miss Camelia, please come to my office

I will contribute ten pounds to the trip

but I'm afraid I can't come, as I am preoccupied

- A shame, sir. We wanted you with us - Never mind

Yes, sir. Many "return happies", sir

- The ten pounds, sir - What ten pounds?

The trip donation you will contribute, sir

Oh, the ten pounds! Here you go

Thanks a lot, sir

Yes, sir

Miss Camelia, I paid a ten pound trip contribution

Shall I add them to your expense sheet, sir?

Yes, as department expenses

- What have you done? - What?

Going to the chairman's office

Why not? He's a colleague too

- The chairman? - Yes

- Our colleague? - Of course

Let us go downstairs, before we're dead meat

- Wait - What?

- We missed a room - Which one?

- That one - That one?

We didn't miss it. I skipped it on purpose

Why? There must be twenty inside

Not at all, only one. But he is just as bad as 20

Oh my! Why?

Gloomy, grumpy, boastful, rigid, complex, a lock-head

- A lock-head? - Double lock, too

You can't handle him. He'll look at you through the tip of his nose

He'll shake hands with his nails

He sounds like a real clown, I won't leave him. Come

Go in alone. I don't want to mourn my youth

- That bad? - Oh yes

Wait for one moment, and I'll fix his complexes

No...

No...

No...

Yes

Are you really gloomy & grumpy? Don't say no

Rigid and boastful? Don't say no

Hand me half a pound for the trip. Don't say no

That's Mr. Adel

Repeat what you just said, Miss

Are you really gloomy & grumpy? Don't say no

Rigid and boastful? Don't say no

Hand me half a pound for the trip. Don't say no

- No - They told me so

He's unsociable, never leaves the room and he'll be mean to you

But I insisted on denying it, and you must join the trip

Again, no

It's spring; the flowers in bloom

For all discussions there's no room

No more, no more

No mumbo jumbo

What for? It is spring now

It's spring, it's spring

- The withered trees blossom true - Wow

- Birds are playful and wild too - That so?!

So, when will we have merriment?

Now or when September's through?

What did he tell you? Did he say yes?

What did he tell you? Did he say yes?

He prescribed a daily dose of joy Don't put it off till tomorrow

Tomorrow, tomorrow

And if we catch one gloomy boy We'll really be full of sorrow

Really, really

It's spring; the flowers in bloom

For all discussions there's no room

No more, no more

No mumbo jumbo

What for? It is spring now

It's spring, it's spring

Time for a race, time for a contest

Whose pure smile is the best?

The humorous, of course, comes first

The dull, naturally, comes last

The roses are blooming, look and see

They dance to hide their timidity

If you're really happy fellows

Let me hear your applause

What did he tell you? Did he say yes?

What did he tell you? Did he say yes?