Yehia chahine biography

A blend of romantic melodrama and outrageous comedy, autobiographical musings and real-life political struggles, the Egyptian director Youssef Chahine’s 1989 multi-genre mashup is a teeming and turbulent fresco of the art and the life of filmmaking. Chahine plays Yehia, a sixtysomething director whose long-planned adaptation of “Hamlet” is wrecked by the departure of its star. That young actor, Amr (Amr Abdulgalil), who’s famous for playing Yehia in the director’s earlier work, is also Yehia’s lover—as the director’s wife, Gigi (Menha Batraoui), knows. Yehia instead plans an Alexander the Great bio-pic, which turns into an erotic psychodrama and a slapstick burlesque. He also leads a sit-in and a hunger strike at the artists’ union (as Chahine did, in 1987)—and, in the process, finds new Shakespearean inspiration with an activist actress named Nadia (Youssra). The outpouring of creative imagination (featuring extended musical numbers in which Chahine also dances) links political struggle to sexual liberation, joyful artistic ferment, and self-scourging yet self-affirmi

Yehia Chahin

Yehia Chahine (Arabic, Yeḥyā Shāheen) (28 ga Yulin 1917 - 18 ga Maris 1994) ya kasance mai shirya fina-finai na Masar kuma dan wasan kwaikwayo na fim da gidan wasan kwaikwayo. Ya fi shahara saboda rawar da ya taka a cikin fina-finai na fina-fakka na Masar na Alkahira Trilogy, wani labari da marubucin Masar Naguib Mahfouz ya rubuta.

Rayuwa da aiki

[gyara sashe | gyara masomin]

An haifi Yehia Chahine a Imbaba, Giza . Sunan mahaifinsa shi ne Yehia Chahine ma. Ya sami difloma a cikin zane-zane kuma ya fara yin wasan kwaikwayo a gidan wasan kwaikwayo. Ayyukansa na farko ya kasance a cikin wasan Murtafa Chantie wa Darag (Heights and Stairs). shekara ta 1935, ya yi fim dinsa na farko.[1][2]

Ya yi aiki a fina-finai da yawa, amma rawar da ya fi sani da ita ita ce ta Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, shugaban Cairene, a cikin fina-fukkuna na Alkahira. Fim din guda uku, Bayn al-Qasrayn (Palace Walk, wanda ya dogara ne akan littafin Palace Walk) a 1964, Qasr al-Shawq (Palase of Desire) a 1967 da Al-Sukkariya (Sugar Street) a 1973, an kafa su ne

Yehia Chahine

Egyptian film producer and actor

Yehia Chahine

Born

Yehia Yehia Hasan Chahine


(1917-07-28)28 July 1917

Imbabah, Egypt

Died18 March 1994(1994-03-18) (aged 76)

Egypt

NationalityEgyptian
Occupation(s)Film actor, producer

Yehia Chahine (Arabic: يحيى شاهين, Yeḥyā Shāheen) (28 July 1917 – 18 March 1994) was an Egyptian film producer and an actor of film and theatre. He is most notable for his role in the Egyptian Cinema'sfilm adaptations of the Cairo Trilogy, a trilogy written by the Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz.

Life and career

Yehia Chahine was born in Imbaba, Giza. His father's name was Yehia Chahine too. He received a diploma in performing arts and started acting in theatre. His first performance was in the play Murtafa`t wa Darag (Heights and Stairs). In 1935, he acted in his first film.[1][2]

He acted in numerous films, but his most notable role is that of Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, a Cairenepatriarch, in the Cairo Trilogy films. The three films, Bay

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