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Salah Zulfikar Films
Salah Zulfikar Films Company (, Pseudonym, aka: Salah Zulfikar Films) is a film production company established in 1962 in Cairo, Egypt. It operated in the Middle East and North Africa since 1962 until 1978. Establishment Salah Zulfikar Films Company was established by Salah Zulfikar (1926–1993), It was created to produce feature films. Their goal was to focus on film sales, but as the founder stated in a 1969 television interview, aired on Channel 1 of the Egyptian television "I am a professional cinematic actor, however, I consider film production as my hobby, I produce what I believe". History Their goal was to focus on film sales, with their first venture being Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, Ezz El-Dine Zulficar's ''A Date at the Tower'' (1962), signing Soad Hosny; the rising female movie star at the time opposite Salah Zulfikar. The film made high numbers and was a financial success for the newly born company. Zulfikar succeeded to sign with Farid Shawqi who was a bankable ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Private Sector
The private sector is the part of the economy which is owned by private groups, usually as a means of establishment for profit or non profit, rather than being owned by the government. Employment The private sector employs most of the workforce in some countries. In private sector, activities are guided by the motive to earn money, i.e. operate by capitalist standards. A 2013 study by the International Finance Corporation (part of the World Bank Group) identified that 90 percent of jobs in developing countries are in the private sector. Diversification In free enterprise countries, such as the United States, the private sector is wider, and the state places fewer constraints on firms. In countries with more government authority, such as China, the public sector makes up most of the economy. Regulation States legally regulate the private sector. Businesses operating within a country must comply with the laws in that country. In some cases, usually involving multinati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faten Hamama
Faten Ahmed Hamama (, ; 27 May 1931 – 17 January 2015) was an Egyptian film and television actress and film producer. She made her screen debut in 1939, when she was only seven years old. Her earliest roles were minor, but her activity and gradual success helped to establish her as a distinguished Egyptian actress. Later revered as an icon in Cinema of Egypt, Egyptian cinema. In 1996, nine of the films she starred in were included in the Top hundred films in the history of Egyptian cinema by the cinema critics of Cairo International Film Festival. She was the first wife of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar. After a seven-year hiatus from acting, Hamama returned in 2000 in what was a much anticipated television series, ''Wajh al-Qamar, Wageh El Amar'' (وجه القمر, ''Face of the Moon''). Hamama substantially helped in improving the cinema industry in Egypt and emphasizing the importance of Women in film, women in cinema and Egyptian society. In 2000, she was selected as Star of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Other Man (1973 Film)
The Other Man (Arabic: ''الرجل'' ''الآخر'' translit.: ''Al Rajul Al Akhar'') is an Egyptian drama film released in 1973 and directed by Mohammed Bassiouny. It features an ensemble cast that includes Salah Zulfikar, Shams El Baroudi, Zubaida Tharwat, Kamal El-Shennawi and Emad Hamdy. Plot The couple, Adel the journalist (Salah Zulfikar) and Salwa (Shams El Baroudi) are happily married and living a quiet and smooth life, looking for how to find happiness for the each other. One day, the kitchen gets broken, and the plumber comes to fix some pipes, and while the plumber (Ezzat Abdel-Gawad) is working, he finds himself in a state of lust. For this wife Salwa, he decides in a satanic moment to attack her and succeeds in that, and the balance becomes lost in the relationship of the spouses after a rift occurred in their relationship. It is a moment of weakness on the part of the plumber and her failure to resist him until she loses her strength and she has no fault in that t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Three Thieves (1966 Film)
Three Thieves also known as 3 Robbers (Egyptian Arabic: ثلاثة لصوص translit: ''Thalathat lousous'' french:''Trois voleurs'') is a 1966 Egyptian film. It tells 3 separate stories about three thieves. The film is written by Ihsan Abdel Quddous and produced by Salah Zulfikar. Yehia Chahine played the role of the judge. First story: The gold thief Plot The events revolve around Mohsen, an employee who is transferred to Cairo. He searches for an apartment to live in. He finds an apartment, but is surprised by its high price. He requires that he buy meat from the owner of the apartment who owns a butcher's shop. He gets to know the butcher's wife and goes to her apartment and gives him some of her gold. The wife is against someone else who comes to buy another apartment, the wife refuses to meet Mohsen and he decides to steal the wife's gold. Cast * Salah Zulfikar: (Mohsen) * Hind Rostom: (Narges - Madbouly's wife) * Saeed Abu Bakr: (Musad Al-Bawab) * Mohamed Reda: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ministry Of Culture (Egypt)
The Ministry of Culture of Egypt is a Cabinet of Egypt, ministry responsible for maintaining and promoting the culture of Egypt. History and structure After Egypt's independence from Britain during the July 1952 Revolution, the new regime established the Ministry of National Guidance in November of that year, giving it wide responsibilities over broadcasting, journalism, press attaches and film censoring, as well as managing tourism, museums, theatre productions, and popular culture. It was considered based on the French model, but also shaped by the experiments of various Eastern Bloc countries with centralized production and dissemination of culture. The ministry was renamed by President of Egypt, President Gamal Abdel Nasser in 1958 as the Ministry of Culture and National Guidance. During president Anwar Sadat's regime, the ministry was renamed and restructured a number of times. In the first cabinet in October 1970 there was a Ministry of Culture, with Tharwat Okasha, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Letter From An Unknown Woman (1962 Film)
''Letter from an Unknown Woman'' (, transliterated as ''Ressalah min emraa maghoula'') is an Egyptian film released on October 22, 1962. The film is directed by Salah Abu Seif, based on the 1922 titular short story by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig, and produced by Salah Zulfikar, while it stars Farid al-Atrash and Lobna Abdel Aziz. Synopsis Ahmed Sameh (Farid al-Atrash) is a famed singer-songwriter who lives a life of dissipation as he indulges in alcohol and women. He remains a deceptively lonely bachelor despite the efforts of associates such as Dr. Monem (Abdel Moneim Ibrahim) and Nevin ( Laila Karim) to make marriage matches for him. On his birthday, Ahmed receives a lengthy letter he would have thrown away save for a note on the envelope saying it reveals an unknown secret in his life, and so he promptly reads what turns out to be a missive from a girl named Amal ( Lobna Abdel Aziz), a former neighbor who peeped at him from her window. She falls in love with his music and thre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arab World
The Arab world ( '), formally the Arab homeland ( '), also known as the Arab nation ( '), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in West Asia and North Africa. While the majority of people in the Arab world are ethnically Arabs, Arab, there are also significant populations of other ethnic groups such as Berbers, Kurds, Somalis and Nubians, among other Demographics of the Arab world, groups. Arabic is used as the lingua franca throughout the Arab world. The Arab world is at its minimum defined as the 19 states where Arabs form at least a wiktionary:plurality, plurality of the population. At its maximum it consists of the 22 member states of the Arab League, members of the Arab League, an international organization, which on top of the 19 plurality Arab states also includes the Bantu peoples, Bantu-speaking Comoros, and the Cushitic-speaking peoples, Cushitic-speaking Djibouti and Somalia. The region stretches from the Atlantic O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films Company
Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films Company (, aka: Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films) is a film production company founded in Cairo by Ezz El-Dine Zulfikar and Salah Zulfikar in 1958. The company operated in the Middle East and North Africa since 1958 until 1963. History In 1958, the Zulfikar brothers; Ezz El-Dine Zulficar and Salah Zulfikar established a film production corporation under the trade name of Ezz El-Dine Zulficar Films. Salah took over the administrative side. The Zulfikar brothers produced their first film; ''Among the Ruins'' (''Bain Al Atlal'') (1959) starring Faten Hamama, Emad Hamdy and Salah Zulfikar. The film was directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar and was commercially and critically successful. Later, it was listed later in the Top 100 Egyptian films. Their second venture was '' The Second Man'' (''Al Ragol Al Thani'') (1959) directed by Ezz El-Dine Zulficar, featuring Salah Zulfikar in two roles alongside Rushdy Abaza, Samia Gamal and Sabah. The film was a box-office hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leading Actor
A leading actor, leading actress, or leading man or lady or simply lead (), plays a main role in a film, television show or play. The word ''lead'' may also refer to the largest role in the piece, and ''leading actor'' may refer to a person who typically plays such parts or an actor with a respected body of work. Some actors are typecasting (acting), typecast as leads, but most play the lead in some performances and supporting actor, supporting or character actor, character roles in others. Sometimes there is more than one significant leading role in a dramatic piece, and the actors are said to play ''co-leads''; a large supporting actor, supporting role may be considered a ''secondary lead''. Award nominations for acting often reflect such ambiguities. Therefore, sometimes two actors in the same performance piece are nominated Oscars for Academy Award for Best Actor, Best Actor or Academy Award for Best Actress, Best Actress—categories traditionally reserved for leads. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egyptian National Police
Egyptian National Police or ENP is the national police force of Egypt responsible for law enforcement. It is a department in the Ministry of Interior. National organization The Ministry of Interior divides the functions of the police and public security among four Deputy Ministers of Interior while the Minister of Interior himself retained responsibility for state security (Qitaa' al-amn al-watani), investigations and overall organization. There are four Deputy Ministers: * Public Security responsible for public safety (inc. Municipal Police), travel, Immigration, passports, port security, and criminal investigation. * Special Police responsible for prison administration, the Central Security Forces, civil defense, police transport, police communications, traffic police, Tourism and Antiquities Police and the Presidential police. * Personnel Affairs was responsible for police-training institutions, personnel matters for police and civilian employees, and the Policemen's Sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War Film
War film is a film genre concerned with warfare, typically about navy, naval, air force, air, or army, land battles, with combat scenes central to the drama. It has been strongly associated with the 20th century. The fateful nature of battle scenes means that war films often end with them. Themes explored include combat, survival and escape, camaraderie between soldiers, sacrifice, the futility and inhumanity of battle, the effects of war on society, and the moral and human issues raised by war. War films are often categorized by their milieu, such as the Korean War; the most popular subjects are the World War II, Second World War and the American Civil War. The stories told may be fiction, historical drama, or biographical. Critics have noted similarities between the Western (genre), Western and the war film. Nations such as China, Indonesia, Japan, and Russia have their own traditions of war film, centred on their own revolutionary wars but taking varied forms, from action an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
