Nabil Maleh

Nabil Maleh

Birth : 1936-09-28, Damascus, Syria

Death : 2016-02-24

History

Throughout its long history, it was known as an important feature film director, and he was among the few directors who made the identity of what was known as Syrian cinema. Perhaps the popularity of his feature films, which won many important awards in Arab and international film festivals, during the past fifty years, has in some way orchestrated his creativity in the field of documentary and short films that he made with much love and passion. He traveled to Prague to study nuclear physics and discovered cinema through the role of Kombars in one of the Czech films. His career He studied cinema on his own account in Czechoslovakia. He holds a master’s degree in film and television directing at the Film Institute in Prague. He has taught film directing and screenplay at many universities, including the University of Film in Austin - Texas and the University of Cinema in Los Angeles - California. His works are fair His films numbered about 150, between short and feature films, and experimental and documentary films.

Profile

Nabil Maleh

Movies

Najla's Passions
Director
a film crew goes to shoot in a small Syrian village.
The Extras
Writer
Salem dreams of being an actor but is still working in a gas station, only his love for Nada can make things easier for him.
The Extras
Director
Salem dreams of being an actor but is still working in a gas station, only his love for Nada can make things easier for him.
Ghawar James Bond
Director
The events revolve around a three-person gang led by Abu Al-Ghawar (Duraid Lahham), who plans to steal Simon Bay, and the gang members succeed in deceiving him and stealing his locker. Whereas the husband of his sister (Nihad al-Qala'i) is a person who has many problems and disputes with the people of the region due to the mockery of the people of the region of Abu al-Ghawar Who uses this money to do amazing inventions that have no use.
The Leopard
Director
Based on a novel by renowned Syrian author Haidar Haidar, Nabil Maleh's first full-length feature is set in Syria in the early 1900s. it is the suspense-filled story of Al Fahd (Adib Qaddoura), an ordinary peasant who becomes a lone rebel, fighting bravely against the colonial government that has usurped his land and subjects him to imprisonment, torture and insult at the hands of the gendarmes. But he declines the help that might have enabled him to overthrow the oppressors for good. The Leopard won first prize at the Locarno Film Festival in 1972 and in 2005 was selected by the Pusan International Film Festival as one of the greatest masterpieces in Asian cinema history.