Our Blessed Aunt

Our Blessed Aunt (ست الستات, transliterated as Sett al-Settat) is an Egyptian comedy, drama film released on June 29, 1998. The film is directed and written by Raafat el-Mehi and stars Laila Elwi, Maged el-Masry, and Magda El-Khatib. The story concerns a young Abdelaziz, who returns to Cairo from another unspecified Arab country. Coming back to his aunt Fakiha's apartment, he discovers that it has become a brothel run by a madam who denies that she is related to him.

Cast

 * Laila Elwi (Lola)
 * Maged el-Masry (Abdelaziz)
 * Hassan Hosny (Hassan el-Demerdash)
 * Magda El-Khatib (Basant Abdel-Al/Fakiha al-Sharnoubi/Sitt al-Satat)
 * Entessar (Zeinab/Dudu)
 * Ali Hassanein (Mamoun Hafez)
 * Mukhles al-Buhairi (Major General Azzouz)
 * Saeed al-Saleh (Fawzy, a paralegal)
 * Ahmed Rizk (Hamada, a soldier)
 * Abdulrahim El-Tanir (minister)
 * Mohaja Abdelrahman (Sheikha Hosina)
 * Diaa Abdel Khalek (taxi driver)
 * Nashat Talaat
 * Ahmed Saeed
 * Najah Fahim
 * Iman Wahba
 * Youssef Abdelmaqsoud
 * Hazem Fouad
 * Laila Abdelhakim
 * Hazem Mamdouh
 * Jihan Wehbe
 * Laila Helmy
 * Moushira
 * Azza Fouad
 * Ismat Kamal
 * Ahmed Samir
 * Rasha Fouad
 * Ahmed Bahloul

Synopsis
The comedy's protagonist Abdelaziz (Maged el-Masry) returns to Cairo after working in another unnamed Arab country. Going to the apartment of his aunt Fakiha (Magda el-Khatib), he discovers that it has become a brothel. Lola (Laila Elwi), one of the prostitutes there, tries to convince him to marry her. He has them make the place a pension, but they carry on their old profession anyway. Everyone is arrested, and Abdelaziz discovers a big surprise.

Legacy
Critic Nisreen al-Rashidi cited the film among others on the website 3ain, remarking that:

"Egyptian cinema has presented women and dealt with their problems throughout its history, even addressing them by name, sometimes as “mara” [woman] and sometimes as “sitt” [lady]…Here we monitor ten films using the word “sitt” from the earliest days of the silver screen to today."