An Egyptian actress, born in 1939. She obtained a BA in agriculture in 1968, and was known for her artistic collaboration with the late director Youssef Chahine in a number of notable films, namely: Alexandria... Why, The Sparrow, and Adieu Bonaparte. However, during her career she focused on TV series, including Al Helmiya Nights, Back Streets, and Umm Kulthum.
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Ahmed Al-Morsi Owais is a young man who has a technical diploma. A lover of poetry, he searches for a job until he eventually finds one as a conductor on electricity meters, allowing him to enter numerous houses from different classes.
Ja'far rebels against his controlling grandfather and marries the shepherdess Marwanah. When his grandfather kicks him out, Ja'far is unable to support himself and Marwanah so he leaves her and marries the wealthy lady Huda, but he begins to struggle to prove himself.
The story revolves around the great lawyer Hassanein, who handles a complex legal case, where each of the parties tells the truth from a point of view that serves their interests and whims. Hassanein thus finds himself on an arduous journey to reach the truth.
This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.
Al-Zamar Hassan is on the run after he was an Engineering student and presented a play with the acting team in the Faculty that the authorities didn't like. He moves from village to village in Upper Egypt, in search of safety. He settles in the village of Araba becoming a vendor in a grocery store.
Naima is detained in the juvenile's house, proves her good behavior and is sent to a hospital to learn nursing.
Amid the poverty, death, and suffering caused by World War II, 18-year-old Yehia retreats into a private world of fantasy and longing. Obsessed with Hollywood, he dreams of studying filmmaking in America but struggles to pursue his dream, given the constraints of his life in the middle class and the horrors of war.
Based on Victor Hugo's novel, a poor man is sent to prison after stealing a loaf of bread. He escapes and becomes rich, but this does not protect him from people's disdain as they know where he came from.
Noura is a free girl, who gets to know Dr. Mounir and connects the love between them, but he is surprised by her thoughts, as she allows herself to have sex with the one she loves without marriage, and all of her sister Laila's attempts to straighten out and discourage her from what she does, Noura asks Munir to expedite his marriage to her, but he refuses, because he is afraid From her thoughts and marry another, so that Nora later meets the well-known writer Ezzat, to change her life.
Set shortly before and during the Six Day War in June of 1967, The Sparrow follows a young police officer stationed in a small village in Upper Egypt whose inhabitants suffer from the harassment of a corrupt businessman.
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