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Youssef Chahine
Alexandria, Egypt
Youssef Chahine (born in Alexandria, Egypt, 1926) started studying in a friars' school and then turned to Victoria College until High School Certificate. After one year at the Uni…
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Youssef Chahine (born in Alexandria, Egypt, 1926) started studying in a friars' school and then turned to Victoria College until High School Certificate. After one year at the University of Alexandria, he moved to the U.S. and spent two years at the Pasadena Play House, taking courses on film and dramatic arts. After coming back to Egypt, cinematographer Alevise Orfanelli helped him into the film business. His film debut was Baba Amin (1950): one year later, with Son of the Nile (1951) he was first invited to the Cannes Film festival. In 1970, he was awarded a Golden Tanit at the Carthage Festival. With Le moineau (1973), he directed the first Egypt-Algeria co-production. He won a Silver Bear in Berlin for Alexandria... Why? (1979), the first installment in what proved to be an autobiographic trilogy, completed with Hadduta Masriya (1982)(An Egyptian Story (1982)) and Alexandria: Again and Forever (1989). In 1992, Jacques Lassalle proposed him to stage a piece of his choice for Comédie Française: Chahine chose to adapt Albert Camus' "Caligula," which proved hugely successful. The same year he started writing The Emigrant (1994), a story inspired by the Biblical character of Joseph, son of Jacob. This had long been a dream project, and he finally got to shoot it in 1994. In 1997, 46 years and 5 invitations later, he was again selected Hors Competition in Cannes with Destiny (1997).
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2019
Let's Talk
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2019
Into Studio Masr
Movie Self
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2011
The Story of Film: An Odyssey
TV show Self
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2009
Chahine…Why?
Movie Self
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2007
Chaos, This Is?
Movie Director
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2007
To Each His Own Cinema
Movie Director
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2006
Ouija
Movie
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2004
Alexandria... New York
Movie Director
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2002
September 11
Movie Director
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2002
Women Who Loved Cinema
Movie Self
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2001
Silence... We're Rolling
Movie Director
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2000
Kiarostami in Close up
Movie as Self
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1999
The Other
Movie Director
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1998
Concerto in Darb Saada
Movie
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1998
Kolha Khatwa
Movie Director
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1997
Destiny
Movie Director
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1995
Lumière & Company
Movie Director
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1994
The Emigrant
Movie Director
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1992
Chahine & Co
Movie
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1991
Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine
Movie Self
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1989
Alexandria Again and Forever
Movie Yehia Eskendarany / Marc Antoine / Sostratus / Hephaestion
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1987
Matin Bonheur
TV show Self
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1987
Trio
Movie Self
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1987
Arab Camera
Movie Self
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1986
The Sixth Day
Movie Rafah
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1985
Adieu Bonaparte
Movie Director
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1982
An Egyptian Story
Movie Old Yehia
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1981
Cinématon XIV
Movie N°133
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1979
Alexandria… Why?
Movie
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1978
Shafiqa and Metwally
Movie Producer
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1977
The Water-Carrier Is Dead
Movie Producer
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1976
Return of the Prodigal Son
Movie Producer
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1974
Spécial cinéma
TV show Self
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1973
Entelak
Movie Director
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1972
The Sparrow
Movie Director
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1972
The People and the Nile
Movie Director
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1972
Salwa, the Little Girl Who Talks to Cows
Movie Writer
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1971
The Choice
Movie Director
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1971
Sands of Gold
Movie Writer
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1970
The Land
Movie Director
