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Salah Abou Seif is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director and Editor Egyptien born on 10 may 1915 at Cairo (Egypte)
Salah Abu Seif (Arabic: صلاح أبوسيف, Ṣalāḥ Abū Sayf) (May 10, 1915 – June 23, 1996) was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors. He is considered to be the godfather of the realistic cinema in Egypt. Many of the 41 films he directed are considered Egyptian classics.
Salah Abu Seif is the most Egyptian director to direct films adapted from Arabic novels and short stories (17 films), his film Bidaya wa nihaya (1960) was the first film adapted from a novel written by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
He is also credited as Salah Abu Saif, Salah Abou Seif or Salah Abouseif. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Il collabore à plusieurs reprises avec Naguib Mahfouz, notamment avec les tournages de Ton jour viendra (libre adaptation de Germinal), de Mort parmi les vivants et de Le Caire 30, tous deux adaptés de romans de Mahfouz. Il installe le réalisme dans ses films, précurseur de ce courant dans le monde arabe, en s'attachant aux contradictions de la classe moyenne, colonne vertébrale de la société égyptienne.
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Salah Abu Seif is the most Egyptian director to direct films adapted from Arabic novels and short stories (17 films), his film Bidaya wa nihaya (1960) was the first film adapted from a novel written by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
He is also credited as Salah Abu Saif, Salah Abou Seif or Salah Abouseif. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
Biography
Salah Abou Seif nait à Boulaq un quartier défavorisé au Caire. Employé dans une usine de textile, après des études de commerce, et passionné de cinéma il rencontre le réalisateur Niazi Mostafa venu tourner un documentaire à l'usine qui appartient aux Studios Misr (studios de cinéma appartenant à la banque Misr). Il devient son assistant réalisateur en 1934. Après avoir passé plusieurs années dans les salles de montage d'où sont sorties des œuvres importantes dont al-Azima (La volonté) de Kamal Salim, Il réalise en 1945, son premier long métrage, un remake du film américain La Valse dans l'ombre.Il collabore à plusieurs reprises avec Naguib Mahfouz, notamment avec les tournages de Ton jour viendra (libre adaptation de Germinal), de Mort parmi les vivants et de Le Caire 30, tous deux adaptés de romans de Mahfouz. Il installe le réalisme dans ses films, précurseur de ce courant dans le monde arabe, en s'attachant aux contradictions de la classe moyenne, colonne vertébrale de la société égyptienne.
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Citizen Masrey (1991)
, 1h30Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama
Actors Safia El Emari, Omar Sharif, Khaled El nabawy
Rating74%
Citizen Masrey (1991)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Origin Egypte
Genres Drama
Actors Safia El Emari, Omar Sharif, Khaled El nabawy
Rating74%
Le fils du gouverneur de village est appelé à faire son service militaire. Sa mère va convaincre son mari d'envoyer quelqu'un d'autre à sa place en falsifiant les identités.
Al-Qadisiyya (1981)
, 2h25Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, War, Historical
Actors Souad Hosni
Rating57%
Film historique qui raconte le deroulement de la bataille al qadisya.
The Bathhouse of Malatily (1973)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Chams El Baroudi
Rating47%
The beginning shows what Habib calls a "long scenic tribute" to Cairo and to the general city. Habib said that the director "visually implies the polymorphous vagaries of the city in which an immoral underworld is bound to flourish.
Cairo 30 (1966)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Souad Hosni, Youssef Wahbi, Ahmed Mazhar
Rating75%
The Sun Will Never Set (1961)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Emad Hamdy, Nadia Lutfi, Ahmad Ramzy, Samiha Ayoub
Rating68%
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 and decides to make his own decisions in his life. Meanwhile, despite restricting social conventions, Layla (Faten Hamama) falls in love with her piano teacher, a married man who is years older than she is, and marries him. The other two daughters accept their conditions and move on. Layla and Mamdouh's impetuous decisions result in unfortunate consequences. Layla divorces her husband shortly after their marriage and Mamdouh dies in a car accident after a quarrel. Ahmed finds the strength to face his brother's death and enrolls in the army to fight in the war. His sister falls in love with another soldier in the war, and Ahmed himself falls in love with a woman and marries her.
The Beginning and the End (1960)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama
Actors Omar Sharif, Sanaa Gamil, Amina Rizk, Salah Mansour, Farid Shawki
Rating78%
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.
I Am Free (1959)
, 1h55Directed by Salah Abou Seif
Genres Drama
Actors Lobna Abdel Aziz, Hassan Youssef
Rating69%
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.
The Barred Road (1958)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Ahmed Mazhar, Ferdoos Mohammed
Rating59%
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. Fayza gets into trouble in the school and, desperate and hopeless, decides to walk in her mother's path. Munir convinces Fayza to stop.
Sleepless (1957)
, 2h7Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Faten Hamama, Yehia Chahine, Mariem Fakhr El Dine, Emad Hamdy, Hind Rostom, Rushdy Abaza
Rating71%
Faten Hamama plays Nadia Lutfi, a young woman who belongs to an aristocratic, upper-class family. After her parents divorce each other, her father wins custody of her. She lives with her father (Yehia Chahine) and over the years develops a very close and strong relationship with him to the extent of being sexually attracted towards him, an obsessive behavior known as Electra complex.
The Thug (1957)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama
Actors Farid Shawki, Tahia Carioca, Zaki Rostom زكي رستم, Mahmoud el-Meliguy
Rating72%
The Leech (1956)
, 2h6Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama
Actors Shadia, Ferdoos Mohammed, Tahia Carioca, Seraj Munir
Rating73%
The Beast (1954)
, 1h55Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Actors Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Anwar Wagdi, Samia Gamal, Abbas Fares, Samiha Ayoub
Rating62%
Your Day Will Come (1951)
Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Faten Hamama, Mahmoud el-Meliguy, Ferdoos Mohammed
Rating59%
A greedy man betrays his friend and falls in love with his wife, who is a rich lady. He kills him and marries the widow. He steals her money and jewellery and mistreats her. He is then arrested by the police and receives his punishment.
, 1h45Directed by Salah Abou Seif, Salah Abou-Sayf
Genres Drama, Adventure, Romance
Actors Seraj Munir, Stephan Rosti
Rating64%
Le film a été présenté en sélection officielle en compétition au Festival de Cannes 1949.