La Anam
| La Anam لا أنام |
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La Anam DVD cover
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| Directed by | Salah Abouseif |
| Produced by | Abdelhalim Nasr Ittihad Elfananeen |
| Written by |
Ihsan Abdel Quddous El Sayed Bedeir Saleh Gawdat |
| Starring |
Faten Hamama Yehia Chahine Mariem Fakhr el din See cast below |
| Music by | Fouad El-Zahry |
| Cinematography |
Mahmoud Nasr Abdelhalim Nasr |
| Distributed by | Rotana (DVD) |
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127 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Arabic |
La Anam 
listen (Arabic: لا أنام, Sleepless) is a 1957 Egyptian melodrama film. The film follows the intricate story of Nadia Lutfi, a daughter of divorced parents who suffers from Electra complex, which drives her to intervene in her father's relationships.
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, which is currently ranked the 29th best Egyptian film by the cinema committee of the Supreme Council of Culture in Cairo, starred Faten Hamama and Yehia Chahine, along with five other prominent Egyptian actors. It was released on DVD as part of the Egyptian Cinema Classics film collection.La Anam is one of the ten first Egyptian colored films.
Faten Hamama plays Nadia Lutfi, a young woman who belongs to an aristocratic, upper-class family. After her parents divorce each other, her father wins custody of her. She lives with her father (Yehia Chahine) and over the years develops a very close and strong relationship with him to the extent of being sexually attracted towards him, an obsessive behavior known as Electra complex.
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