Today, Tuesday, the Egyptian artist, Adel Imam, celebrates his 82nd birthday, amid great celebration among the artistic circles and among the masses of his birth.
Al-Zaeem owns dozens of timeless artworks, which have become an integral part of the Egyptian art heritage, and its distinctive signs. On his birthday, which falls on May 17, some are looking for his most prominent works, perhaps to see them once more.
In this report, we review with you some of Adel Imam’s films that combined comedy, drama and politics.
The birds of darkness
The film tells the story of the rise of a politician for a lawyer, to the position of director of the office of a minister, in light of the presence of two other friends in his life, one of whom is within the Islamic groups, and the other is just an employee who has no financial or political ambition. The film was written by the late writer Waheed Hamed, who analyzes the situation of Egyptian society during the period in which the film was produced, in 1995.
love in the dungeon
The film tells regarding a love story that develops between a prisoner and a prisoner, Adel Imam and Soad Hosni, and they fall in love with each other, and following his release from prison he decides to marry her, and takes revenge on the one who caused him to enter the prison world. Directed and written by Mohamed Fadel, and a script and dialogue by Ibrahim Al-Mouji, other heroes appear in the film, Yahya Al-Fakharani, Jamil Ratib and Abdel Moneim Madbouly, and the film was produced in 1983.
the forgotten
The film tells regarding a simple transfer worker in the railways, when a businessman’s secretary resorts to him, and he asks her to accompany an important figure to complete a deal, so she escapes from him and meets Al-Mansi, who tries to save her, and succeeds in the matter. The film was written by Waheed Hamid and directed by Sherif Arafa, and the artist Ahmed Adam and Karam Mutawa participated in the championship.
Devil’s Island
A group of friends are looking for a treasure lost in one of the sunken ships, on the Devil’s Island in the Sinai, and they are looking for a diver who will teach them to dive. It is the story of Khaled Al-Banna, directed by Nader Jalal, and starring Yousra, Mustafa Metwally, Gamal Ismail and Ahmed Ratib, and the film was produced in 1990.
Get out of your mind
The film, starring Adel Imam and Sherihan, tells regarding the society’s dealing with people with mental illnesses, through a love story that combines a mental patient and a student attending a master’s degree in psychology, and one of the things that distinguishes the film is Omar Khairat’s music. The movie was produced in 1985.
