Greek actress Gerbis or Marcia DemetrosResiding in Egypt, she was known for her only role in Egyptian cinema in the movie “Salama fi Khair” with the Egyptian actorAmin RihaniIn 1937, which achieved great success at the time, she played the role of “Umm Yeni”, the Greek neighbor of the actor, as well as her son Victor.
Gerbis appeared once in a movie and then disappeared without anyone knowing what had happened to her. After that, Egyptian director Niazi Mustafa, the film’s director, exposed the matter, and wrote in his memoirs: “She was arrested because of me.”
Theatrical performance turned into chaos
In 1937, the special screening of the feature film in the city of Alexandria turned into a state of complete chaos, as a man shouted at the top of his voice, specifically when Gerbis appeared on the screen in its first scenes, so that the police took the man and the director to the police station to search for the details of the incident, to request following investigation from Niazi Mustafa knew the details and address of Gerbis, to be then sentenced to death.
Why and what crime did Marcia Demetros commit, here is the story.
Story details
This man is Muhammad Abdullah, and he belongs to the most famous and wealthiest families in Alexandria. His father left him shops in gold and a huge fortune. He used to live with his brother, who is 5 years younger than him, and their mother. One day, he needed a girl to help him manage the gold shop, so that a very beautiful Greek girl, who speaks several languages fluently, has a high degree of culture, and began to work with him, to create a love relationship between them that ended with their announcement of their marriage, and she announced her conversion to Islam, and she bore the name Fatima Wali.
The couple lived a period of stability, before Muhammad entered one day and found his brother harassing Gerbis, to know that he had been doing this since she was working in their shops, so he beat him until he breathed his last, and buried his body with the help of his friends.
Muhammad’s mother began repeating her question regarding her son, until he had to tell her that he had traveled to Italy to buy gold jewelry for the shop, and following a long time, questions began to increase in the mother’s head until she went to the embassy to make sure that her son had not left Egypt. Gerbis then decided to get rid of the mother and began to convince Muhammad of that, which he initially opposed, but was convinced following she threatened him with execution if his case was revealed. Gerbis put the mother’s sleeper in food, strangled her while she slept until she died, and they buried her next to her son.
Muhammad Al-Jawaherji’s psychological condition began to decline and he no longer left the house, so his wife asked him to officially assign her to manage the shops, and following a while she decided to take all his property and stole his accounts from the banks.
In 1934, Muhammad received a call from his wife asking him to meet her in an apartment in one of the areas, to find his wife with a group of men and they began to beat him, then set fire to the apartment to get rid of him, but he managed to escape and jumped out of the building.
Death sentence following years
Years later, Muhammad found his wife, an actress in the movie “Salamah fi Khair”, and the police began searching for Gerbis, who tried to flee to Greece with her Greek husband, but he refused, so she shot him, and before shooting her son, she fell. She falls to the ground and starts screaming, and the police arrest her and sentence her and Muhammad to death in 1939.
Thus, the story of Gerbis or Marcia Demetros ended tragically following she spent her life trying to make money, using various methods, no matter how bad, and affecting the lives of others.