Farid Shawqi
1920 - 1998He wrote many film stories, and worked on stage in many of Rihani's plays, such as (Al-Daloua, The Story of Every Day), and he worked in Lebanese, Syrian and Turkish films, including (The Devil of the Bosphorus, Othman Al-Jabbar). And among the series he worked with, (Curmudgeon and Me, the only witness, Saber, Uncle Saber).
He married artist Hoda Sultan and they separated in 1969, then he married Suheir Turk later on.
He founded the Union of Artists in 1986. He won the State Prize for the story (They Made Me a Criminals) in 1955 and the Production Prize at the Berlin Festival in 1956 for the film (The Fatwa). He won the State Prize for Production in 1962, the Medal of Flag in 1964, and was honored by the Cairo Festival in 1994. He deservedly deserved the title of King of Tiers or King of Cinema, as he is the star who always renewed himself and got rid of stereotypes.
بداية و نهاية
Salah Abouseif
Omar Sharif, Farid Shawqi
A film that portrays the lives of the members of an Egyptian family: three brothers, their sister Nefeesa and their mother after the father’s death. They all go in different directions which aren't exactly good.
A Beginning And An Ending
خرج ولم يعد
Mohamed Khan
Aida Abdel Aziz, Tewfik El Dekn
Attia (Yehia al-Fakharani) works as a simple employee, after his mother-in-law threatens to break his engagement from her daughter because of his delay in getting an apartment. He travels to his hometown to sell his inheritance. There he falls in love with Kharyia (Leila Alawi) daughter of Kamal Bey (Farid Shawki) who bought his land.
Gone with No Return
غزل البنات
Anwar Wagdi
Naguib Al Rihani, Laila Mourad
Hamam is a poor Arabic language teacher who gets sacked from a girls' elementary school for not being able to control mischievous students. He feels pessimistic about everything in life,but his freind,an employee working for a pasha finds him a job as a private teacher for his only daughter Laila in order to help her pass an exam. Laila treats Hamam like a friend and helps him to appreciate life and enjoy its qualities,and the man soon is drawn to her.
The Flirtation of Girls
باب الحديد
Youssef Chahine
Farid Shawqi, Hind Rostom
Qinawi, a physically challenged peddler who makes his living selling newspapers in the central Cairo train station, is obsessed with Hanuma, an attractive young woman who sells drinks. While she jokes with him about a possible relationship, she is actually in love with Abu Siri, a strong and respected porter at the station who is struggling to unionize his fellow workers to combat their boss' exploitative and abusive treatment.
Cairo Station
السقا مات
Salah Abouseif
Ezzat El Alaili, Taheya Cariocca
The story of the friendship that develops between two men with quite different world views. One, a water carrier whose wife has died twenty years before, spends his days thinking about her. The other, who works in the funeral business, spends his life in the pursuit of pleasure because he recognizes that death will bring an end to all enjoyment. They meet and become friends. Through this friendship the water carrier is encouraged to change his morbid way of thinking and to enjoy life.
The Water Carrier Died
أفواه وأرانب
Henry Barakat
Faten Hamamah, Mahmoud Yassine
A story discussing the society problem during the seventies due to not having any family planning, also covering main issue of differences between poor society and rich society. This film introduces a family with 10 kids and lots of problems they get into through a funny story between an Aunt for the kids and her struggle for getting married to the man she loved because of her bother in law who got her married with someone behind her back, using false information.
Mouths and Rabbits
انا ذنبي اية
Ibrahim Emara, Ibrahim Omara
Leila Fawzi, Mohsen Sarhan
Dr. Magdy marries Laila, the daughter of a wealthy family, in spite of the opposition of Laila's mother, who wanted her to marry a wealthy man. She uses her wicked nephew to create disputes between Laila and Magdy.
What's My Fault
إسكندرية... ليه؟
Youssef Chahine
Farid Shawqi, Mahmoud el-Meliguy
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 one-day studying filmmaking in America, but after falling in love and discovering the lies of European occupation, Yehia profoundly reevaluates his identity and allegiances.
Alexandria… Why?
الكرنك
Aly Badrakhan
Farid Shawqi, Soad Hosny
In the 1960s, the lives of three college classmates, Ismail, Zainab, and Helmy, take a dark turn when the three of them are arrested and tortured as part of the repressive and violent practices that were employed by the General Intelligence Directorate back then.
Al Karnak
كلمة شرف
Hossam El Din Mostafa, Ahmed AL-Sabaawi
Ahmad Mazhar, Hind Rostom
Salem was arrested for a crime he was not involved in. His brother-in-law Kamel has sinned with a young girl who becomes pregnant, so Salem takes her to have an abortion but she dies during the operation. When Salem knows that his wife is in critical condition,he wants to see her and tell her the truth.
Word of Honour
صراع في الوادي
Youssef Chahine
Faten Hamamah, Omar Sharif
A wealthy landlord floods and destroys a village on purpose to prevent the people living there from making a profit off their crops. What he doesn't know is that his own daughter, Amal, is in love with Ahmed, a young man from the village.
The Blazing Sun
ملف في الاداب
Atef El-Tayeb
Madiha Kamel, Farid Shawqi
Saeed, the officer in the arts police, is shocked at the beginning of his service by his chief’s decision to save the investigation of the case of Aliya Hanim, as it relates to the officials and turns into a person who is rigid. When the counselor, master, gives the officer information that some workers visit an apartment and practice fancy, he tries by all possible means to prove the charge against them, even by falsehood.
A File in Vice
