Hannuma

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Hannuma is the deuteragonist of the 1958 Egyptian film Cairo Station.
She is portrayed by the late Hind Rostom.
==Personality==
Hannuma was very beautiful, friendly and hard-working, but she can be mischievous. She would get in trouble with the police and even Abu Serih after being caught dancing to rock n roll music in the train.
Hannuma and the soda workers always appeared at the railway going to the trains, offered people cold drinks until the police arrives so she would running away from them.
Hannuma loved Abu Serih and always obey his orders after she caught dancing to rock n roll music in the train. When Qinawi forced her to marry him, she turned down and even say to him that Abu loves her after Qinawi lying to her about Abu during their short time on the train.
==Biography==
Hannuma work as a soda seller to make a living for herself alongside her fellow soda sellers. She was engaged to Abu Serih, an unionist fighting for the rights of the workers.
Hannuma running away from the police while Qinawi was lying down on the ground. She went back to discuss with her fellow workers about her troubles with the police and her engagement to Abu Serih until the police came, she and her fellow workers were running away.
Qinawi begin to selling newspapers on the street after being subjected to mocking due to his disability by Tulba, one of Abu Serih's friends as well as his meeting with an unnamed young woman. Hannuma and her soda workers went to a train to gave people soda bottles to drink until the police arrives. She saw that the boy's life in danger and saved him from being hit by a train. 
Qinawi heard that Hannuma got in trouble with the police while selling newspapers. She went on to changing her clothes after her fellow soda workers throw soda waters at her. While look at a mirror, she noticed a cat and hugged the cat closely until the cat jumped out as Qinawi caught peeking on her. Feeling embarrassed, Hannuma tell him to get away from her and he went away as she refuses to let him kissed her hands, causing Hannuma to called on her friend to have kids throwing stones at him for peeking on her. After being escaped from being throw stones by the kids, Qinawi begin to fall in love with her and become obsessed with her as he begin to cut a pinup poster and draw it with a pen and look at it alone.
Qinawi look at the romance between the unnamed young man and the unnamed young woman. Later, he selling newspapers and look at a woman's body until Hannuma arrives to sell soda drinks to people. Feeling in love with her, Qinawi gave Hannuma a necklace as a proposal and asked her to marry him so he and Hannuma will live together happily in the village with their kids. Hannuma, already engaged to Abu Serih, turned down his engagement, causing Qinawi drives into madness as well as the beginning of his attempt to murder her for rejecting his proposal.
Feeling affected by her rejection of his proposal to marry her, Qinawi cut the pinup posters while Madbouli is reading a newspaper about a woman found dead in a Rasheed station, which is also causing his plan to kill her. Hannuma grab the money that Abu hold in the train station and gave him the cigarettes considering that Abu is a smoker. Abu told her to be very kind to Qinawi because Qinawi was mistreated surrounded by the people in Cairo as he warned her about Qinawi. Hannuma was having fun dancing to rock n roll in the train and offer them soda drinks as Qinawi watching her having fun until Abu Serih caught her and took her to a warehouse to punished her following that. After that, Qinawi overheard the romance between Hannuma and Abu Serih in the warehouse, left him feeling enraged and went on to buy a knife for his plan to kill Hannuma.
After the workers were siding with Abu Serih to forming a union, Qinawi came to the warehouse after being teased by a little girl and left a necklace in Hannuma's trousseau. Hannuma got in the trouble with the police again as she illegally selling soda drinks and her fellow soda workers reveals to her that they planned a raid on them while hiding under the train. While they escaped, meanwhile Hannuma was on a protest against marriage as she offered them soda drinks while a police officer tried to stop her. Qinawi asked her to get a necklace in the warehouse, but she refuses. As a police officer tried to find a bucket, Hannuma gave Qinawi a bucket to hide it in the warehouse from the police. After Qinawi hide it in the warehouse, she tell Hallawatim to returning her bucket.
Hallawatim came to the warehouse searching for the bucket and find it but Qinawi stabbing her and locked her up in the trunk. Qinawi visiting the meeting between Abu Serih, the workers and the government. Madbouli is also there and trying to tell Qinawi to returning his work as a newsstand vendor, but Qinawi shouts at him by refusing to work and begin to following Abu Serih as he is carrying the trunk to the train. After he carry the trunk with Gadallah to the train, Qinawi walk away while the unnamed young man farewell to his friends and girlfriend.
Becoming highly delusional, Qinawi returning to Madbouli's newsstand and tell him that he carry Hannuma's trunk for his "wedding", causing Madbouli aware that the former is suffering from mental illness and feeling concerned about the former as well as the wedding between Hannuma and Abu Serih. On the train, Hallawatim is not dead and is finally found by the person. Qinawi returning to his shred, siting and smoke alone over the pinup posters behind him. He look at the cat and hugging the cat as he is fantasizing about his wedding and future with Hannuma, but the cat scratching his chest out, causing Qinawi beat the cat and destroying his shred with the stick while having a mental breakdown.
Madbouli try to warning Abu Serih about Qinawi, but Abu going to a station. He also try to Hannuma's life by telling a little girl to find her, but she doesn’t listen and is searching a bucket. Abu Gaber and his henchmen were planning to Abu Serih's life after the workers were siding with Abu Serih to forming a union. When Abu Serih find injured Hallawatim in the train, they planned to framed him as the murderer. Hannuma was arrested by the police for illegally selling soda drinks and assaulting a police officer in self-defense as Qinawi witness it and Abu Serih tried to catching Qinawi for the attempted murder, but he cannot find him in the shred as Qinawi tried to escape, however Abu Serih caught and fighting him for what he did to Hallawatim, but Abu Gaber's henchmens framing him as the murderer and have Qinawi call the police to arrest Abu Serih in their attempt to frame him as the murderer, causes the police to release Hannuma from jail, so she can go with Qinawi in the train. When Abu Serih was arrested in the front of the crowd, Madbouli save his life by telling the truth about Qinawi and urging the police to call the asylum regarding Qinawi's mental illness. Abu Serih is set free and is going to save Hannuma after hearing that her life in danger when she is with Qinawi.
Qinawi and Hannuma were having a good time in the train until the former lying to her about Abu Serih and is holding a knife to kill her for rejecting his marriage proposal, Hannuma running away from him as the train announcer announced emergency. Abu Serih and the police went to the train while Qinawi is hiding in the dark, Abu called Hannuma's name causing her unlocks the room led to Qinawi tried to kill her but she bites him and nearly escaped but Qinawi caught and fighting with her in the railroad. He holding her tightly as the train is about to hit them until it finally stops, the police turn on the light to him until Madbouli and the crowd were finally here at the railroad.
In order to save Hannuma's life, Madbouli pretending to let Qinawi marry Hannuma so the "wedding" will taken tonight and be a guest in it, persuading Qinawi to get off the railroad for his "wedding" while Abu Serih came to recusing Hannuma and grab the knife that Qinawi hold. Qinaw finally off the railroad and wearing the costume that Madbouli gave him is actually the straitjacket and is shocked in horror that he wearing the straitjacket and is taken to an asylum. Abu Serih holding Hannuma while the unnamed young women waiting at the railroad for her boyfriend in the end.
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