Youssef Chahine

ActorDirectorWriterProducer Jan 25 (died age 82) Alexandria, Egypt 1950–2019 (69 year career)

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Biography

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 fi…

Known For

Film

Cairo Station

Qinawi

Film

To Each His Own Cinema

Director

Film

September 11

Director

Film

The Land

Director

Film

Lumière & Company

Director

Film

Saladin the Victorious

Director

Film

The Blazing Sun

Director

Film

Destiny

Director

Filmography

Acting (23)

Movies (19)

Into Studio Masr

2019

as Self

Let's Talk

2019

as Self (archive footage)

5.0

Chahine…Why?

2009

as Self

Ouija

2006

4.5

Women Who Loved Cinema

2002

as Self

Kiarostami in Close up

2000

as as Self

Concerto in Darb Saada

1998

Chahine & Co

1992

Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine

1991

as Self

6.8

Alexandria Again and Forever

1989

as Yehia Eskendarany / Marc Antoine / Sostratus / Hephaestion

4.4

Trio

1987

as Self

Arab Camera

as Self

The Sixth Day

as Rafah

An Egyptian Story

as Old Yehia

Cinématon XIV

as N°133

Dawn of a New Day

1964

as Hamada

7.0

Ismail Yassine in the Air Force

Cairo Station

as Qinawi

Women Without Men

Television (4)

The Story of Film: An Odyssey

2011

as Self

7.7

Matin Bonheur

1987

as Self

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self

Shaheen... Why?

as self

Crew (56)

Movies (56)

To Each His Own Cinema

Director

Chaos, This Is?

Director

Alexandria... New York

Director

September 11

Director

September 11

Writer

Silence... We're Rolling

Director

The Other

Director

Kolha Khatwa

Director

Kolha Khatwa

1998

Writer

Destiny

Director

Lumière & Company

Director

The Emigrant

Director

Cairo as Told by Youssef Chahine

1991

Director

6.8

Alexandria Again and Forever

Director

The Sixth Day

Director

Adieu Bonaparte

Director

Adieu Bonaparte

Writer

An Egyptian Story

Director

Alexandria… Why?

Director

Shafiqa and Metwally

Producer

The Water-Carrier Is Dead

1977

Producer

7.9

Return of the Prodigal Son

1976

Director

6.4

Return of the Prodigal Son

1976

Producer

6.4

Return of the Prodigal Son

1976

Writer

6.4

Entelak

1973

Director

The Sparrow

1972

Director

6.3

Salwa, the Little Girl Who Talks to Cows

1972

Writer

The People and the Nile

Director

The Choice

Director

Sands of Gold

Director

Sands of Gold

1971

Writer

The Land

1970

Director

8.2

The Nile and the Life

1968

Writer

5.5

The Feast of Mairun

1967

Director

The Ring Seller

Director

Dawn of a New Day

Director

Saladin the Victorious

1963

Director

7.3

A Man in My Life

1961

Director

Lovers' Call

Director

In Your Hands

Director

Forever Yours

Director

Cairo Station

Director

Jamila, the Algerian

Director

My One And Only Love

Director

Farewell, Love

Director

Struggle in the Harbor

1956

Director

6.2

Struggle in the Harbor

1956

Screenplay

6.2

Struggle in the Harbor

1956

Story

6.2

The Devil of the Desert

Screenplay

The Blazing Sun

Director

Women Without Men

Director

Women Without Men

Writer

Lady of The Train

Screenplay

The Great Clown

Writer

Son of the Nile

Director

Baba Amin

Director