---
title: 'Dananeer (1940)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Ahmed Badrakhan'
released: '1940-09-29'
runtime_minutes: 95
genres:
  - 'Drama'
  - 'Romance'
countries:
  - 'Egypt'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/dananeer-1940'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0237133/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Dananeer (1940)

1940 · 95 min · Drama, Romance · Egypt

Original title: دنانير

## Synopsis

Dananeer is a 1940 Egyptian musical film directed by Ahmad Badrakhan, and 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.

## Credits

- **Director:** [Ahmed Badrakhan](https://cinepixo.com/people/ahmed-badrakhan)

## Cast

- [Soliman Naguib](https://cinepixo.com/people/soliman-naguib)
- [Fouad Shafik](https://cinepixo.com/people/fouad-shafik)
- [Umm Kulthum](https://cinepixo.com/people/umm-kulthum)

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