#youssef chahine

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The Blazing Sun (1954 🇪🇬)

directed by Youssef Chahine cinematography by Ahmed Khorshed

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جميلة الجزائرية // JAMILA, THE ALGERIAN (1958) dir. YOUSSEF CHAHINE

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Jamila, the Algerian is a 1958 Egyptian historical film from Youssef Chahine about one of the most important figures in the history of Algeria, Djamila Bouhired.

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Seif Abdelrahman in Dawn of a New Day ('Fagr Yom gedid', 1965 🇪🇬)

directed by Youssef Chahine

[filmkatt]

شيطان الصحراء * Youssef Chahine * 1954

[stellacadente]

شيطان الصحراء | The Devil of the Desert (1954) dir. Youssef Chahine

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An Egyptian Story (1982) Dir. Youssef Chahine

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إسكندريه كمان وكمان | ALEXANDRIA, AGAIN AND FOREVER (1989) dir. Youssef Chahine Yehia, a famous Egyptian director, becomes obsessed with his young star, Amir, while participating in the general strike of 1987. Fantasizing about the films they would make together, Yehia elevates Amir to a cinematic messiah, while also becoming enchanted by Nadia, an actress turned revolutionary. (link in title)

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Youssef Chahine, January 25, 1926 - July 27, 2008.

Alexandria… Why? (1979).

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ALEXANDRIA, AGAIN AND FOREVER (1989)

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Dalida in The Sixth Day (Youssef Chahine, 1986)

Cast: Dalida, Mohsen Mohieddin, Shouweikar, Hamdy Ahmed, Sanaa Younes, Salah El-Saadany, Mohamed Mounir, Youssef Chahine, Abla Kamel, Hasan El-Adl, Maher Esam. Screenplay: Youssef Chahine, Hasan Al Geretly, based on a novel by Andrée Chedid. Cinematography: Mohsen Nasr. Production design: Tarek Salaheddine. Film editing: Luc Barnier. Music: Omar Khairat. 

The French-Italian pop star Dalida, who was born in Egypt, plays Saddika, a middle-aged woman living in a village during the cholera epidemic of 1947. She takes in washing to support her second husband, who is disabled, and her small grandson. Saddika catches the eye of Okka (Mohsen Mohieddine), who is 20 years younger. He's a street performer who works with a trained monkey, and he idolizes Gene Kelly -- to whom the film is dedicated. Okka doesn't have Kelly's talent as either a singer or a dancer, as a fanciful musical interlude demonstrates, but he is energetic in his wooing of Saddika. When her grandson is stricken with cholera, he helps her hide the child from the public health authorities. A bounty is awarded to anyone who reports a cholera victim, and the village is alive with people willing to snitch on their neighbors. Saddika may have good reason to conceal the boy's illness: The sick are taken to a site in the desert that is rumored to be nothing more than a death camp. The film's title comes from the belief that if you survive six days with the disease you're in the clear. Saddika and the boy end up on a river boat accompanied (reluctantly on her part) by Okka. The Sixth Day is mostly coherently narrated, and it has some fine moments of comedy and suspense, but it also contains some incidents that don't quite fit the main story. I'm not sure, for example, what's going on in a scene in which a drunken British soldier is hustled into a bright red car whose passengers are women. Dakka witnesses the incident, but it's not clear what it has to do with his story or Saddika's. I suspect that it's a scene in Andrée Chedid's novel that Youssef Chahine didn't quite integrate into his screenplay. 

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جميلة الجزائرية // JAMILA, THE ALGERIAN (1958) dir. YOUSSEF CHAHINE

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The Land (1969) - Youssef Chahine

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Dawn of a New Day ('Fagr Yom gedid', 1965 🇪🇬) directed by Youssef Chahine

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شيطان الصحراء * Youssef Chahine * 1954

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باب الحديد (Bāb al-Ḥadīd / Cairo Station), 1958.

Dir. Youssef Chahine | Writ. Mohamed Abu Youssef & Abdel Hay Adib | DOP Alevise Orfanelli