Salah Abouseif's Egyptian Puppet Show with Soad Hosny
Excerpt from the 1967 film The Second Wife
This vignette occurs about midway through the film and shows Soad Hosny in her role as Fatma, overhearing the puppet show while she is in crisis and despair about her impending forced divorce with her husband Abool Eeli (played by Shukry Sarhan) and forced marriage to the mayor of her village, Atman (played by Salah Mansour). The puppets are in a drama resembling the one the principal characters in the film are enacting. Fatma is like the puppet Kishkilyoos--forced to dance for the ox herder even though she loves the puppet (the aragooz). After the puppet show ends with the line "Love can't be forced," Hosny's character, like Kishkilyoos, also becomes defiant and ultimately triumphant in her conflict with Atman.
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