During 1942, Nadia Burhan lives with her mother in Alexandria, Fawzia lives with her husband Shaker, whom she married against her family’s will. Nadia meets Salah and agree to get married. Fawzia dies from a German bombardment of the city, and Nadia has amnesia and Fawzia’s husband tries to delude Nadia that she’s Fawzia.

El-Lailah el-Akhirah.mkv

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Language(s):Arabic
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Mona, a well off widow and working mother, is struggling to raise her six children of different ages ranging from elementary school to university graduating students and all with names beginning in ‘M.’ When she decides to bring home a new husband, she faces a number of challenges. One of the best loved Egyptian classics, on the surface ‘Empire of M’ is a family drama but beneath this story is a call for political liberalism and women’s rights during the Sadat era. The film is based on a novel by Ihsan Abd al-Qudus (‘The Belly Dancer and the Politician’), adapted for the screen by the Egyptian Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz, and features Hussein Kamal (‘The Virgin and the White Hair’) directing a cast led by ‘the First Lady of Arab Cinema’ Faten Hamama (‘The Nightingale’s Prayer’) in an award winning role. Also starring Ahmed Mazhar (‘El Nasr Salah El Dine’) and Dawlad Abiad (‘The White Rose’). Produced by Murad Ramses Nagib with scenario by Mustafa Samy and Kawser Haikel, cinematography by Wahid Farid, set design by Nehal Nahjat, and montage by Rasheeda Abdel Salam.

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Language:Arabic
Subtitles:English

The post Hussein Kamal – Emberatoriet meem AKA Empire M (1972) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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This is a classical melodrama from Egypt and nicely shot in black and white. It is a tale of relations between man and woman, death, revenge and forgiveness. To watch a film is not just the moving images it is also a opportunity to travel in time and space. Here one is moved back too Egypt in the fifties. I do believe that with the travel back in time there is also and chance to learn something about norms and values, the society and how the relations between people was at that particular time in that particular environment. Doa al karawan AKA The Nightingale’s Prayer (1959) was chosen as one of the best Egyptian films of all time, and it also stars Faten Hamama and she is maybe the number one female screen icon of Egyptian cinema. This film is based on a novel by Taha Hussein and he is considered to be one of the finest and most influential writers of modern Egyptian literature.

1.71GB | 2h 03m | 747×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/1C849E9E7644E96/The.Nightingale’s.Prayer.1959.DVDRIP.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English

The post Henry Barakat – Doa al karawan AKA The Nightingale’s Prayer (1959) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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During the Second and Third Crusades, Saladin beat the Franks in battle partly because he was helped by an Arab Christian named Issan. Thus he was able to reconquer Jerusalem and take many prisoners, including Guy de Lusignan, a Christian King.
This big budget production, promoted by Assia, a well-known female producer, enabled Chahine to offer an Arab perspective on the history of the Crusades such as presented by Hollywood and Cinecittà. In order to obtain Egyptian army’s logistical support and also administrative clearances, Chahine cunningly persuaded Nasser, the charismatic ruler of Egypt, that the film was being made as a tribute to him. The result is an epic work, showing Saladin at the height of his victories during the Second and Third Crusades, in which Chahine achieves brilliantly striking setups that avoid the need to show onscreen violence. “Before the shoot, the Coptic community was afraid that this film might provoke tension between Christians and Muslims. The latter feared that the film would not show them in a sufficiently glorious light. I told each that I would do my best, really just to relax things, although the truth is that the film offers as accurate a depiction as possible of what actually happened”, Chahine was to explain years later. “Nasser showed it to every president who came to see him. I do not believe, however, that this film should be seen as a tribute to Nasser, as people have called it”, he added. Saladin’s military and strategic victories against the Franks are used here as an opportunity not to glorify Saladin but as a backdrop to the story of the love affair between Issan and Louise de Lusignan, one of the sultan’s prisoners. ~ Tewfik Hakem

2.43GB | 2h 58mn | 1024×436 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/9CF6CD9CBF4808B/Chahine_Youssef_(1963)_El_Naser_Salah_el_Dine.mkv

Language(s):Arabic
Subtitles:English, French

The post Youssef Chahine – El Naser Salah el Dine AKA Saladin and the Great Crusades (1963) first appeared on Cinema of the World.