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Letter From An Unknown Woman (1962 Film)
''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' ( ar, رسالة من امرأة مجهولة, transliterated as ''Ressalah min emraa maghoula'') is an Egyptian film released on October 22, 1962. The film is directed by Salah Abu Seif, based on the titular short story by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, and produced by Salah Zulfikar, while it stars Farid al-Atrash and Lobna Abdel Aziz. Cast * Farid al-Atrash (Ahmed Sameh) * Lobna Abdel Aziz (Amal) * Mary Mounib (Khadija, Amal’s mother) * Amina Rizk (Amal’s aunt) * Fakher Fakher (Ibrahim Aman, Ahmed’s servant) * Abdel Moneim Ibrahim (Dr. Monem) * Laila Karim (Nevine) * Hussein el-Sayed (Said Kamel) * Yaqoub Mikhail (Umar Mahfouz) * Abdel Ghani Nagdi (Fawaz al-Ghafir) * Nawal Abul Foutouh * Ezzat El Alaili (Ahmed Sameh’s friend) Synopsis Ahmed Sameh ( Farid al-Atrash) is a famed singer-songwriter who lives a life of dissipation as he indulges in alcohol and women. He remains a deceptively lonely bachelor despite the efforts of ass ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salah Abu Seif
Salah Abu Seif ( ar, صلاح أبو سيف, ) (May 10, 1915 – June 23, 1996) was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors, and is considered to be the godfather of Neorealist cinema in Egyptian cinema. Many of the 41 films he directed are considered Egyptian classics with 11 films in the Top 100 Egyptian films list. His film '' The Beginning and the End'' (1960) was the first adaptation of a novel by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival. Early life Abu-Seif was born in 1915, in Cairo's ancient quarter of Boolaq, to landowning parents from Upper Egypt. He was 12 years old when he saw the first full- length feature film made by an Egyptian, in 1927, at a local movie-house - earlier films were imports accompanied by Egyptian narrations, or made by Europeans living in Egypt. As the son of a conservative family, Abu-Seif graduated from the Cairo College of Commerce and Economics in 1932, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |