Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
Curvaceous and always dressed in sequins, the belly dancers — the Alma’ — are present at weddings and circumcision parties. Mainly lower-class, they come from every corner of Egypt and dream of becoming the queen of the Cairo dance palaces. Dina, star of the 1980s, made this dream come true.
Curvaceous and always dressed in sequins, the belly dancers — the Alma’ — are present at weddings and circumcision parties. Mainly lower-class, they come from every corner of Egypt and dream of becoming the queen of the Cairo dance palaces. Dina, star of the 1980s, made this dream come true.