Salah Abu Seif
Film director
1915 – 1996
Who was Salah Abu Seif?
Salah Abu Seif was one of the most famous Egyptian film directors. He is considered to be the godfather of the realistic cinema in Egypt. Many of the 41 films he directed are considered Egyptian classics.
Salah Abu Seif is the most Egyptian director to direct films adapted from Arabic novels and short stories, his film Bidaya wa nihaya was the first film adapted from a novel written by Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz.
He is also credited as Salah Abu Saif, Salah Abou Seif or Salah Abouseif. In 1977 he was a member of the jury at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival.
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- Born
- May 10, 1915
Cairo - Also known as
- Salah Abouseif
- Ṣalāḥ Abū Sayf
- Salah Abu Saif
- Salah Abou Seif
- Nationality
- Egypt
- Profession
- Died
- Jun 23, 1996
Cairo
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on July 23, 2013
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