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Henry Barakat is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer and Production Office Assistant Egyptien born on 11 june 1914 at Cairo (Egypte)
Henry Barakat (Arabic: هنري بركات, 11 June 1912, Cairo – 27 May 1997, Cairo) was one of the foremost film directors in Egypt. For decades, he directed some of the most famous actors, singers and dancers of the Arab world.
In the 1955 hit Days and Nights, he directed belly-dancer Zeinat Olwi in one of her most memorable performances.
Il met aussi son talent de réalisateur au service de chanteurs célèbres, comme Farid El Atrache et Abdel Halim Hafez. Il réalise, au Liban, deux des trois films musicaux de la grande chanteuse libanaise Fairouz: Safar Barlek et Bint el Hareth. Il est décédé en 1997. Il était marié et avait deux filles.
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In the 1955 hit Days and Nights, he directed belly-dancer Zeinat Olwi in one of her most memorable performances.
Biography
Né au Caire en 1914 dans une famille de Chawâms chrétiens (de rite grec-melkite-catholique) d'origine libanaise, Henri Barakat vient en France pour approfondir sa connaissance du Septième art. Il réalise au cours d'un demi-siècle de carrière quelques chefs-d'œuvre du cinéma égyptien, dont L'Appel du courlis (1959) et Le Péché (1965).Il met aussi son talent de réalisateur au service de chanteurs célèbres, comme Farid El Atrache et Abdel Halim Hafez. Il réalise, au Liban, deux des trois films musicaux de la grande chanteuse libanaise Fairouz: Safar Barlek et Bint el Hareth. Il est décédé en 1997. Il était marié et avait deux filles.
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Safar Barlek (1967)
, 1h55Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Musical
Rating77%
The film is set in 1914. It displays the struggles of a Lebanese village to smuggle wheat under Ottoman oppression.
Safar Barlek (1967)
Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Musical
Rating77%
Safar barlek est un film de guerre musical libanais dirigé par Henry Barakat en 1966. Le film tire son nom du safarbarlik.
The Sin (1965)
Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom زكي رستم, Abdullah Gaith
Rating75%
Azizah, a poor peasant, portrays worker oppression in this somber social drama. She gets savagely raped by a guard when she goes into the fields to gather potatoes. She does not reveal what had happened to her husband who is suffering from an illness. She conceals the pregnancy and throttles the baby after it is born. She also dies soon thereafter. The migrant workers rally around her memory as she becomes a martyr to the cause of the struggling peasants.
The Sin (1965)
, 1h45Directed by Henry Barakat
Origin Egypte
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Faten Hamama, Zaki Rostom زكي رستم
Rating75%
Aziza est une pauvre paysanne travaillant dans les récoltes de champs de pomme de terre. Lorsqu'elle se retrouve seule avec un des gardes, elle se fait violer. Aziza tombe enceinte et ne parle à personne du viol qu'elle a subi. Son mari, gravement malade et alité n'en saura rien. Elle essaiera de cacher sa grossesse le plus longtemps possible, jusqu'au moment où elle met au monde son petit dans une situation difficile. Elle mourra peu après, emportée par une fièvre.
Hassan and Nayima (1959)
, 1h44Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Souad Hosni
Rating56%
The Nightingale's Prayer (1959)
, 1h49Directed by Henry Barakat
Origin Egypte
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Ahmed Mazhar, Amina Rizk
Rating80%
Amna is a young woman that witnesses the death of her older sister by her uncle, who had abandoned her family and left them with no support. She understands from her mother that her sister deserves to die because she dishonors the family. Amna doesn't agree. She believes that her uncle should be blamed for their conditions. She seeks revenge from the engineer who swayed her sister and lied to her thus causing her death. Amna moves to his house to work as a maid and tries to poison him several times, but all her plans fail. She discovers it's impossible to kill him. This engineer starts to approach her, but she resists him, which makes him even more attracted to her.
Appointment with Love (1956)
Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Musical films
Actors Faten Hamama, Abdel Halim Hafez, Rushdy Abaza, Emad Hamdy
Rating70%
Faten Hamama plays Nawal, a journalist who meets Samir, a young man. She encourages him to pursue a singing career and he does. He starts a successful career and becomes famous. Nawal gets paralyzed and, not willing to hinder his progress, tries to end their relationship without telling him the truth. Samir finds about the truth. Recognizing her great sacrifice, he returns to her and marries her.
Dayman Ma`ak (1954)
Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Romantic comedy, Musical
Themes Musical films
Actors Faten Hamama, Mohamed Fawzi
Rating75%
Tefeeda is a girl who leaves her brother-in-law, who was forcing her to steal. She hides with a friend who lives with three young men, and one of them, starts flirting with her, but she resists him. She marries her friend after the man tries to separate them several times. The story climaxes with a myterious murder investigation.
Pity My Tears (1954)
Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Rushdy Abaza, Faten Hamama, Yehia Chahine, Seraj Munir, Dalida
Rating68%
Faten Hamama plays Amal, whose father loses most of his money and almost goes bankrupt. She gets abandoned by her fiancé. The owner of a nearby factory steps up and offers to help her father until his conditions get better. Amal marries this man, but their life together as a couple turns out to be boring. Amal, who wasn't very excited about their relationship initially, slowly discovers her husband's good qualities and their life turns into a happy one.
Immortal Song (1952)
Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Farid al-Atrash, Magda al-Sabahi, Seraj Munir
Rating72%
Waheed (Farid Al Atrache), a famous music composer, meets Wafa' (Faten Hamama), a family member and the daughter of a close friend and relative of his. Wafa' has secretly had a crush on him for years and tries unsuccessfully to show her affection and hint that to Waheed. He thinks her love is nothing more than an expected family member's fondness.
Shore of Love (1950)
Directed by Ahmed Badrakhan, Henry Barakat
Genres Romance
Actors Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Mariem Fakhr El Dine, Abbas Fares, Tahia Carioca, Stephan Rosti, Ferdoos Mohammed
Rating63%
Afrita Hanem: The Genie Lady (1949)
, 1h59Directed by Henry Barakat
Origin Egypte
Genres Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Samia Gamal, Farid al-Atrash, Ismail Yasin, Zeinat Sedki, Abdel Salam Al Nabulsy, Stephan Rosti
Rating62%
Au Caire, Asfour (Farid El Atrache) est chanteur dans un théâtre. Il est amoureux de sa partenaire la danseuse Aliya, elle-même fille du directeur du théâtre et sur le point d'épouser l'homme d'affaires Mimi Bey qui leur apporte une dot importante. À cause d'un quiproquo, Asfour se croit aimé d'Aliya et entreprend de demander sa main à son père. Ce dernier prend la demande en considération, mais à la condition qu'Asfour offre une dot plus élevée. Comme ce dernier est sans le sou, la demande échoue. Alors qu'Asfour désespéré se lamente dans un jardin, il fait la rencontre d'un vieil homme à l'air bienveillant, personnage mystérieux qui lui apparait parfois brièvement. L'apparition lui donne rendez-vous dans une grotte le soir même. Accompagné de son alter ego Bou'ou, personnage à la fois énergique et gaffeur, Asfour va au rendez-vous où l'homme lui remet un objet qui pourra lui donner le bonheur à la condition qu'il en fasse bon usage : c'est une lampe magique dont sort une séduisante ifrit, Kahramana (Samia Gamal). Celle-ci, invisible pour tout autre que lui, le confond avec son amour, le démon Astaroth, dont Asfour a joué le rôle.
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Hassan and Nayima (1959)
, 1h44Directed by Henry Barakat
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Souad Hosni
Roles Dialogue
Rating56%
The Nightingale's Prayer (1959)
, 1h49Directed by Henry Barakat
Origin Egypte
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Ahmed Mazhar, Amina Rizk
Roles Writer
Rating80%
Amna is a young woman that witnesses the death of her older sister by her uncle, who had abandoned her family and left them with no support. She understands from her mother that her sister deserves to die because she dishonors the family. Amna doesn't agree. She believes that her uncle should be blamed for their conditions. She seeks revenge from the engineer who swayed her sister and lied to her thus causing her death. Amna moves to his house to work as a maid and tries to poison him several times, but all her plans fail. She discovers it's impossible to kill him. This engineer starts to approach her, but she resists him, which makes him even more attracted to her.