Archive for the ‘Producers & Directors’ Category
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Salah Abu Sayf (1915 – 1996)
Cairo is the capital of the cinema industry in the Arab World. It could not have attained this status without pioneers like Salah Abu Sayf. Starting out as an editor, he went on to directing films for over fifty years. His movies have two distinctive characteristics: unity of space and unity of dramatic treatment. Three quarters ...
Anwar Wagdi (1904-1955)
Anwar Wagdi was of Syrian origin, the son of a textile trader, and believed from an early age that he resembled the American actor Robert Taylor. His first appearance on stage was in Julius Caesar in 1922. It was not until ten years later that he made it onto the screen, taking minor parts in ...
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Zinda Laash (1967):
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Asiya (1960):
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