Dananeer (film)
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| Arabic | دنانير |
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| Directed by | Ahmad Badrakhan |
| Written by | Ahmad Rami |
| Starring | Umm Kulthum Sulayman Najib Abbas Fares Firdaws Hasan |
| Music by | Muhammad Hasan al-Shuja'i |
Production company | El Sharq Films |
| Distributed by | El Sharq Films |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | Egypt |
| Language | Egyptian Arabic |
Dananeer (دنانير, also romanised as Dananir) is a 1940 Egyptian musical film directed by Ahmad Badrakhan, written by Ahmad Rami. It stars Umm Kulthum in the title role of a Bedouin girl whose singing talent elevates her from the desert to the caliph's court. The historical romance is set in early 9th-century Iraq, during the reign of the fifth Abbasid caliph, Harun al-Rashid, whereas the title character is a semi-fictionalized Dananir al-Barmakiyya, qiyan musician, singer and poet.