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Salāḥ 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 Neorealism (art), Neorealist cinema in Cinema of Egypt, 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 ''Bidaya wa nihaya, 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo
Cairo ( ; ar, القاهرة, al-Qāhirah, ) is the capital of Egypt and its largest city, home to 10 million people. It is also part of the largest urban agglomeration in Africa, the Arab world and the Middle East: The Greater Cairo metropolitan area, with a population of 21.9 million, is the 12th-largest in the world by population. Cairo is associated with ancient Egypt, as the Giza pyramid complex and the ancient cities of Memphis and Heliopolis are located in its geographical area. Located near the Nile Delta, the city first developed as Fustat, a settlement founded after the Muslim conquest of Egypt in 640 next to an existing ancient Roman fortress, Babylon. Under the Fatimid dynasty a new city, ''al-Qāhirah'', was founded nearby in 969. It later superseded Fustat as the main urban centre during the Ayyubid and Mamluk periods (12th–16th centuries). Cairo has long been a centre of the region's political and cultural life, and is titled "the city of a thousand m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Leech (1956 Film)
''The Leech'' ( ar, Shabab emraa, also known as ''A Woman's Youth'') is a 1956 Egyptian drama film directed by Salah Abu Seif. It was entered into the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Shadia * Taheya Cariocca Taheyya Kariokka ( ar, تحية كاريوكا) also Tahiya Carioca (born Badaweya Mohamed Kareem Ali Elnedany), (February 22, 1915 – September 20, 1999) was an Egyptian belly dancer and film actress. Early life Born in the Egypti ... as Shafaat * Shukry Sarhan * Abdel Warith Assir * Seraj Munir * Ferdoos Mohammed as Mother References External links * 1956 films 1950s Arabic-language films 1956 drama films Egyptian black-and-white films Films directed by Salah Abu Seif Egyptian drama films {{Egypt-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Second Wife (1967 Film)
''The Second Wife'' ( ar, الزوجة الثانية, translit. El Zawga El Thania) is a 1967 Egyptian drama film directed by Salah Abu Seif. Cast * Soad Hosny as Fatma * Shoukry Sarhan Mohamed Shoukry El Husseiny Sarhan (1925–1997, ar, محمد شُكري الحسيني سرحان, Muḥammad Shukrī al-Ḥusaynī Sirḥān), better known as Shoukry Sarhan ( ar, شُكري سرحان, Shukrī Sirḥān), was an Egyptian ... as Abou El Ela * Sanaa Gamil as Hafiza * Salah Mansour * Soheir El Morshedi * Abdelmonem Ibrahim * Hassan El Baroudy References External links * 1967 films 1960s Arabic-language films 1967 drama films Films directed by Salah Abu Seif Egyptian black-and-white films Egyptian drama films {{Egypt-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cairo 30
''Cairo 30'' ( ar, القاهرة 30, translit. Al-Qāhira 30) is a 1966 Egyptian drama film directed by Salāḥ Abu Seif, and based on Naguib Mahfouz's 1945 novel ''Modern Cairo''. The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 39th Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominée.Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Cast * Soad Hosny as Ihsan * Ahmed Mazhar as The minister * Hamdy Ahmed as Mahgoub Abdel Dayem * Abdelmonem Ibrahim as Ahmed Bedier * Tawfik El Deken as Shahata Tourky * Abdelaziz Mikewy as Ali Taha * Aqeila Rateb as The minister's wife * Ahmed Tawfik as Salem El Ekshidy * Bahiga Hafez as Ikram hanem See also * List of submissions to the 39th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film * List of Egyptian submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Egypt has submitted films for consideration for the Academy Award for Best International Feature Film since 1958, wh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun Will Never Set
''The Sun Will Never Set'' or ''Don't Set the Sun Off'' ( ar, لا تطفئ الشمس, translit. La Tutf'e al-Shams) is a 1961 Egyptian romance film. Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous in 1960 and co-written by Helmy Halim. The film was presented in the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1962 and was selected as one of the best 150 Egyptian film productions in 1996. The film starred Faten Hamama, Imad Hamdi, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmed Ramzy, Shukry Sarhan and Layla Taher. Plot An aristocratic family is torn down after the death of its patriarch. He leaves alone his widow wife and five of his daughters and sons. His eldest son, Ahmed (Shukry Sarhan), takes the role of the man in the house and helps his mother take care of his brother and sisters. Mamdouh ( Ahmed Ramzy), his brother, is a self-centered man who refuses to follow his brother's step ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2nd Moscow International Film Festival
The 2nd Moscow International Film Festival was held from 9 to 23 July 1961. The Grand Prix was shared between the Japanese film ''The Naked Island'' directed by Kaneto Shindo and the Soviet film '' Clear Skies'' directed by Grigori Chukhrai. Jury * Sergei Yutkevich (USSR - President of the Jury) * Chinghiz Aitmatov (USSR) * Zoltán Várkonyi (Hungary) * Luchino Visconti (Italy) * Sergei Gerasimov (USSR) * Karel Zeman (Czechoslovakia) * Mehboob Khan (India) * Joshua Logan (USA) * Leon Moussinac (France) * Roger Manwell (Great Britain) * Francisco Piña (Mexico) * Walieddin Youssef Samih (Egypt) * Jerzy Toeplitz (Poland) * Huang Guang (China) * Michael Tschesno-Hell (East Germany) * Liviu Ciulei (Romania) * Borislav Sharaliev (Bulgaria) Films in competition The following films were selected for the main competition: Awards * Grand Prix: ** ''The Naked Island'' by Kaneto Shindo ** '' Clear Skies'' by Grigori Chukhrai * Special Golden Prize: ''Everybody Go Home'' by Luigi C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Beginning And The End (1960 Film)
''The Beginning and the End'' ( arz, بداية و نهاية) is a 1960 Egyptian film directed by Salah Abouseif and based on the 1950 novel by the same name. It was the first film adapted from a novel written by Naguib Mahfouz. ''The Beginning and the End'' is the 7th in the top 10 films of the list of the Top 100 Egyptian films of all time. At the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival in 1961, the film was nominated for the Grand Prix award. For her role as Nefisah, Sanaa Gamil won the award for Best Supporting Actress. Plot The film portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family, who are three brothers, their sister Nefisah ( Sanaa Gamil) and their mother (Amina Rizk), after the family's patriarch's death. The older brother Sultan (Farid Shawki) turns to crime, while the younger brother, Hassan, leaves Cairo to work in another city. The youngest brother, Hassanein (Omar Sharif), aspires to be an officer, and in order to achieve that he puts his family into financ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Between Heaven And Earth (1960 Film)
''Between Heaven and Earth'' ( arz, بين السماء والأرض, translit. Bayn El Sama we El Ard) is a 1960 Egyptian comedy film directed by Salah Abu Seif. Cast * Hend Rostom as Nahed Shoukry * Abdel Moneim Madbouly as The thief * Mahmoud El-Meliguy as Kamel * Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy * Abdel Moneim Ibrahim See also * Cinema of Egypt * Lists of Egyptian films * List of Egyptian films of the 1960s Below are lists of films produced in Egypt in the 1960s. *List of Egyptian films of 1960 *List of Egyptian films of 1961 *List of Egyptian films of 1962 *List of Egyptian films of 1963 *List of Egyptian films of 1964 *List of Egyptian films of 19 ... References External links * * * 1960 films * 1960s Arabic-language films * * 1960 comedy films * Egyptian comedy films * Films directed by Salah Abu Seif {{Egypt-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am Free
''Ana Horra'' or ''Ana Hurra'' ( ar, أنا حرة, en, italics=yes, I Am Free) is a 1959 Egyptian drama starring Lobna Abdel Aziz. ''Ana Horra'' is associated with the onset of a feminist context to Egyptian films in the 1960s. The film is also known as part of Salah Abu Seif's Empowerment of Women Trilogy. At its time, this film defied the conservative conventions of Egyptian society and the role of women within it. Plot summary The film is an account of a college girl's frustrations with the predominantly male patriarchal system in Egypt. Released in 1959, the film captures much of the feminist sentiments of the 1960s and its widespread fervor in Egypt. The film's protagonist, Aminia, played by Lubna Abdel Aziz, is a young woman living with her aunt's family which includes her uncle and her cousin. The men in her life further reinforce the themes of male dominance in the film with their restriction on her life. Characters *Amina (Lobna Abdel Aziz)- Amina is a young girl una ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Barred Road
''The Barred Road'' ( arz, الطريق المسدود, translit. Al-Tareeq al-Masdood) is a 1958 Egyptian drama/romance film. Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous. The film was co-written by El Sayed Bedeir and the Nobel Prize-winning writer Naguib Mahfouz. It starred Faten Hamama and Ahmed Mazhar. The film received an award from the Egyptian Catholic Center for Cinema and was selected one of the top 150 films in Egypt in 1996. Plot Faten Hamama plays Fayza, a young student who lives with her family after the death of her father. Left with no money, her mother (Zouzou Mady) is forced to turn her house into an illegal gambling house. Fayza opposes her mother's solution. Munir (Ahmed Mazhar) is a writer who meets Fayza and falls in love with her but she rejects him. Fayza decides to leave to the countryside where she works as a teacher in a small school. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sleepless (1957 Film)
''Sleepless'' ( ar, لا أنام, translit. La Anam) is a 1957 Egyptian melodrama film. The film follows the intricate story of Nadia Lutfi, a daughter of divorced parents who suffers from Electra complex, which drives her to intervene in her father's relationships. Directed by the Egyptian film director Salah Abu Seif, this film is based on a novel with the same name written by the Egyptian novelist Ihsan Abdel Quddous. The film, which is currently ranked the 29th best Egyptian film by the cinema committee of the Supreme Council of Culture in Cairo, starred Faten Hamama, Yehia Chahine, Mariam Fakhr Eddine, Omar Sharif, Emad Hamdy, Hind Rostom and Rushdy Abaza. It was released on DVD as part of the ''Egyptian Cinema Classics'' film collection. ''Sleepless'' is one of the ten first Egyptian colored films. Plot Faten Hamama plays Nadia Lutfi, a young woman who belongs to an aristocratic, upper-class family. After her parents divorce each other, her father ( Yehia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
