Written by Fouad
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 03:00 AM
The film will also be shown on the same day at the Hanager Cinema in Cairo, followed by a symposium moderated by journalist and writer Gamal Abdel Nasser, in the presence of film director Ashraf Fayek, an official at the Cultural Development Authority Fund, headed by Hani Abu Al-Hassan. The film will also be shown on Thursday, February 23, at the Talaat Harb Cultural Center Cinema.
Director Hossam El-Din Mostafa is one of the most famous Egyptian film directors. He aspired to travel to the United States of America to study film directing, and he was lucky when he stood as an executive director for the international director Cecil DeMille in the movie “The Ten Commandments” in 1956. He is considered one of the great directors of the movement in Egyptian cinema and drama, where he His screen is vibrant and glowing, and he’s adept at driving large groups and dominating the toughest shooting locations with his lens.
He undertook the task of filming himself in many of his works, and Hossam El-Din Mostafa is considered a director with a case, and this may have exposed him to many artistic and personal crises, and perhaps the most famous of them was his expulsion from the Filmmakers Syndicate due to his travel to Israel, in addition to preventing the screening of his movie The Path of Passion because it contained scenes outside, And consider it one of the films that offend Egyptian society. Hossam El-Din Mustafa’s location behind the cameras is known for his calmness emanating from extreme commitment, despite his glow in front of the cameras. He married the artist Nelly in the early seventies, and their marriage did not last more than three years, then they separated quietly, and they continued to be close friends following that, and he married 3 times other than his marriage to Nelly, and settled with his last wife, the mother of his daughter Gina.
Hossam El Din Mostafa has 100 films from 1956 to 1994. Among his most famous films is The Bullet Is Still in My Pocket, The Black Glasses, The Enemy Brothers, The Unjust and the Oppressed, Sabreen, Kaa al-Madina, Al-Shaima, A Crime in the Quiet Neighborhood, The Three Devils, The Kings of Evil, The Harafish Gram Snakes, Agency Balah, and others. Perhaps he deliberately retired from cinema following reaching 100 films, following which he stopped directing the cinema and focused his activity on drama, especially historical, so that he might manage it with a cinematic character full of movement, and he succeeded in that during the series Al-Fursan, Imam Abu Hanifa Al-Numan, Heroes, The Age of Imams, Eagle of the East Imam Ibn Hazm and others. He left our world in 2000 at the age of 74, leaving behind a wealth of important films and purposeful dramas.