The Film and Acting Professions Syndicates mourned the director’s body Ali Abdul Khaleq From the Sayeda Nafisa Mosque to his final resting place, who passed away yesterday, Friday, following a struggle with cancer.
The funeral was attended by Dr. Nevin Al-Kilani, Minister of Culture, Dr. Ashraf Zaki, head of the Syndicate of Acting Professions, Massad Fouda, head of the Syndicate of Film Professions, artist Nihal Anbar, artist Tariq Al-Nahri, Director Khaled Galal, Head of the Cultural Production Affairs Sector, Khaled Abdel Galil, Advisor to the Minister of Culture for Cinema Affairs. Head of Censorship of Artistic Works, Director Omar Abdel Aziz, President of the Federation of Artistic Syndicates, Director of Photography Saeed El-Shimy, Director Ashraf Fayek
The late director Ali Abdel-Khaleq studied at the Higher Institute of Cinema, Department of Directing, and following graduating from the institute in 1966, he worked as an assistant for a while and then turned to directing documentary films, and one of the most famous of these films is his documentary film “Farewell Song”, which won many international awards from documentary film festivals. And the short ones, including the second prize from the Leipzig Film Festival in Germany, and his movie “Suez is my city” won the first prize from the first Ministry of Culture Festival for Documentary Films in 1970.
He presented his first feature film in 1972, entitled (Song on the Corridor), regarding a play of the same name by the writer (Ali Salem). At the end of the seventies, he directed such as (The Traveler Without a Road) 1978, and (Farid Shawqi) in (The Devils) 1980.[2] During the eighties, he formed a duet with the author (Mahmoud Abu Zaid) in several successful films such as: (Shame) 1982, (Keef) 1985, (Running the Monsters) 1987, (The Egg and the Stone) 1990.
At the beginning of the nineties, the number of films directed by Abdel-Khaleq decreased, so that he turned to television drama in the early 2000s, and he presented several series, including: (Najma al-Jamahir) 2003, (The Second Gate) 2009.
