Ali Badrakhan
[ ] (born April 25, 1946) is an Egyptian
film director
A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...
and
screenwriter
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based.
...
, the son of the director
Ahmed Badrakhan
Ahmed Badrakhan (18 September 1909 – 26 August 1969) was an Egyptian film director and screenwriter of Kurdish origin. He directed 41 films between 1936 and 1968. He is famous for his 1952 romantic drama '' A Night of Love'' starring Mah ...
. He worked as assistant to
Fatin Abdel Wahab
Fatin Abdel Wahab ( ar, فطين عبد الوهاب; 22 November 1913 – 12 May 1972) was an Egyptian film director. He directed 52 films between 1949 and 1970. His 1961 film '' Wife Number 13'' was entered into the 12th Berlin International F ...
in ''
Land of Hypocrisy
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'' in 1968, and with
Youssef Chahine
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in the films ''Selection'' in 1971 and ''
The Sparrow'' in 1974; his first movie was ''The Love That Was'' (1973) by
Soad Hosny
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. Badrakhan collaborated with
Naguib Mahfouz
Naguib Mahfouz Abdelaziz Ibrahim Ahmed Al-Basha ( arz, نجيب محفوظ عبد العزيز ابراهيم احمد الباشا, ; 11 December 1911 – 30 August 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize in Literature. M ...
,
Salah Jahin
Muhammad Salah Eldin Bahgat Ahmad Helmy (, ), known as "Salah Jaheen" or "Salah Jahin" ( ar, صلاح جاهين, ; December 25, 1930 – April 21, 1986) was a leading Egyptian people, Egyptian poet, lyricist, playwright and cartoonist.
Life ...
, 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 cinema of Egypt refers to the flourishing film industry based in Cairo, sometimes also referred to as Hollywood on the Nile. Since 1976, the capital has held the annual Cairo International Film Festival, which has been accredited by the I ...
*
Top 100 Egyptian films
Top 100 Egyptian films aliases: CIFF 100 Egyptian films or Greatest 100 Egyptian films in 20th century or Top 100 films in the centenary of Egyptian cinema (Egyptian Arabic: قائمة أفضل مئة فيلم في مئوية السينما ال� ...
Bibliography
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Laura U. Marks
Laura U. Marks is a philosopher and scholar of new media and film
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise commu ...
, 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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