Ali Badrakhan
(born April 25, 1946) is an Egyptian
film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that Goal, vision. The director has a key role ...
and
screenwriter
A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...
, the son of the director
Ahmed Badrakhan. He worked as assistant to
Fatin Abdel Wahab
Fatin Abdel Wahab (; 22 November 1913 – 12 May 1972) was an Egyptian film director
A film director or filmmaker is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the ...
in ''
Land of Hypocrisy'' in 1968, and with
Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine ( ; 25 January 1926 – 27 July 2008) was an Egyptian film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death. He directed twelve films included in a list of Top 100 Egyptian films published by ...
in the films ''Selection'' in 1971 and ''
The Sparrow'' in 1974; his first movie was ''The Love That Was'' (1973) by
Soad Hosny
Soad Mohammad Kamal Hosny (, ; 26 January 1943 – 21 June 2001) was an Egyptian actress. She was known as the "Cinderella of the Screen" and one of the most influential actresses in the Middle East and the Arab world. She is generally regarded a ...
. Badrakhan collaborated with
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha (, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. In awarding the prize, the Swedish Academy described him as a writer "who, through wo ...
,
Salah Jahin, and
Ahmed Zaki.
Early life
Badrakhan was born to Ahmed Badrakhan who is of Kurdish descent and Salwa Allam in Cairo circa 1946.
Filmography
See also
*
Cinema of Egypt
The Egyptian film industry is today based mainly in Cairo, which is sometimes referred to as Hollywood on the Nile, Hollywood of the Middle East or Hollywood of the East, despite having its beginnings in the city of Alexandria in the early 20t ...
*
Top 100 Egyptian films of the 20th century
Bibliography
*
Laura U. Marks, Hanan Al-Cinema: Affections for the Moving Image, The MIT Press UK. 2015.
*Josef Gugler, Film in the Middle East and North Africa: Creative Dissidence, University of Texas Press Austin, USA. 2011, pages 369.
*Terri Ginsberg, Chris Lippard, Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, Scarecrow Press, UK. 2010, 527 pages.
*Jean-François, Brière, Dictionnaire des cinéastes africains de long métrage, Karthala-ATM, 411 2008, pages.
*Roy Armes, Dictionary of African Filmmakers, Indiana University Press, USA. 2008, 402 pages.
*Viola, Shafik, Popular Egyptian Cinema: Gender, Class, and Nation, American University Press in Cairo, Egypt. 2007, 349 pages.
*Joel S. Gordon, Revolutionary melodrama: popular film and civic identity in Nasser's Egypt, Middle East Documentation Center, 2002, 300 pages.
*Leaman, Oliver, Companion, Encyclopedia of Middle Eastern and North African Film, London : Routledge, 2001.
*Hind Rassam Culhane, East/West, an ambiguous state of being: the construction and representation of Egyptian cultural identity in Egyptian film, P. Lang, 1995, 226 pages.
*Keith, Shiri, Directory of African film-makers and films, Greenwood Press, 1992, 194 pages.
*Peter Cowie, International Film Guide, Tantivy Press, 1977, 536 pages.
Note
External links
* Ali Badr Kha
1946 births
Egyptian film directors
Egyptian screenwriters
Film people from Cairo
Living people
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