Atef Salem

Atef Salem

Birth : 1921-07-23, Sudan

Death : 2002-07-30

History

Atef Salem is a famous Egyptian director, born in Sudan to Egyptian parents. He enriched Egyptian cinema with many notable films. Among his famous films are Mother of the Bride (1963) and its sequel, The Grandson (1975). He began his artistic career as an actor in the movie Magda (1943), then worked as an assistant director for several directors, then as a director. He directed 32 films between 1954 and 2001. Many of his films were scripted by the novelist Naguib Mahfouz. His 1967 film Khan el Khalili was entered into the 5th Moscow International Film Festival.

Profile

Atef Salem

Movies

Toot Toot
Director
A mentally challenged woman living through the help of neighboors,been taken advantage of and assaulted by a rich man then left for survival on her own away from people she knew.
The Lost
Director
In order to provide a home for her and her family, Zainab goes to work in an Arab country, and send her savings to her husband, she returns to discover that her husband divorced her and got married in her apartment. She collapses and decides to take revenge.
Kwaml's House
Director
Farida (Nadia al-Jundi), the owner of the house, decides to demolish the house and build a large residential tower. She does not pay any attention to the house's inhabitants, but her luck falls in love with one of the house's inhabitants. He takes responsibility for managing her new project and gives him the right to agency. From unique and revenge to home dwellers.
Black Tiger
Director
An Egyptian goes to Germany to work in a factory and become a boxing legend called black tiger.
العرافة
Director
العاشقة
Director
Les Miserables
Director
The film Les Miserables is adapted from Victor Hugo's novel of the same name
Wa da al-omr ya waladi
Director
Fatima gets involved with the crook Abbas who lures her in with wealth before he gets arrested. Fatima meets Dr. Ahmed and he marries her despite her past, and she gives birth to Samir. When Abbas comes out of jail, he looks for Fatima, which turns her life into a nightmare.
العش الهادئ
Director
Legs In Mud
Director
Fardous is in prison for stealing a watch. She shares a cell with Samia, who works in a show band and is wrongly arrested in a brothel and Mona who accidentally killed a child with her car. When Fardous comes out, she works in Asfour's poultry farm, but leaves it when he and his son compete to marry her.
Barefoot on the Gold Bridge
Director
Camelia loves acting, gets to know the director and producer Ahmed Sameh, who agrees with her to star in his new movie. Aziz, the influential man, approaches her, but she repels him. She agrees with Ahmed to marry, and Aziz threatens to kill him.
ومضي قطار العمر
Director
A remake of the Turkish film "The Father" 1971.
شبان هذه الأيام
Director
Hosni does not find a suitable time to spend at home to consider the affairs of his house, wife and children, as he is the editor-in-chief of one of the well-known magazines, writes about youth issues, but he finds himself immersed in work and in a relationship with his secretary, Suheir, without knowing that she is secretly married to his son Khaled, except That the October war erupts and Khalid invokes with others, the father discovers the extent of his mistake and his wife returns to the house while sending his son before his martyrdom a letter to his father recommending him to his wife Suheir.
باي باي ياحلوة
Director
الحفيد
Director
Where Is My Mind?
Director
Dr. Tawfiq remains captive to the traditions of honor and innocence, despite his liberation and printing some of the traditions of European civilization when he was studying there. And is incapable of reconciling his liberal mind with the environment in which he is raised and which makes him lagging behind the twentieth century.
امرأة حائرة
Director
امرأة حائرة
Writer
The Back Stairs
Director
The back staircase is used for the building owned by Omar, some residents. His son, Sami, a failed high school student, uses the stairs for his late return. A band uses a band to occupy one of the apartments, and they avoid meeting the doorman who demands a fee. The worker Nousa visits them through the back stairs, as she likes to dance and sing, then join the band.
College Girls
Director
The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college
College Girls
Director of Photography
The lives of a group of girls who depart from the strict world of school to the open world of college
Al-cirk
Writer
directed by atef salem
Al-cirk
Director
directed by atef salem
Khan El-Khalili
Director
based on a novel by naguib mahfouz
The Yemen Revolution
Director
Directed by Atef Salem.
The Mamluks
Director
After suffering Egyptians from the oppression of the Mamluks and despotism clump the people and organize popular resistance to eliminate them and get rid of the ruling Circassians and the commander of his bodyguards Aybak, joins Alhabiban Ahmad and Qamar resistance despite suffering colors they receive, designed Ahmed to avenge the death of his mother on their hands, achieved guerrilla dream he is condemned the country's young people from Egyptians are free.
زوجة من باريس
Director
Dr. Nagy works in the Paris oasis, but his friend, engineer Wajih, is rebelling against the woman after he is shocked by the betrayal of his wife. David, the school headmaster, searches for the appropriate wife and is chosen on one of the girls of the oasis. Wajih gets married to a new social supervisor who can personally remove the bad impact she left His wife betrayed him.
The Naked Truth
Director
Amal, a tour guide in Cairo, doesn’t want to get married after witnessing her mother’s divorce, and has decided that all men are no good. With high hopes, she goes to visit the Aswan High Dam where a tourism delegation is. In a chance encounter, she meets civil engineer Ahmed, who intervenes in time to save her life after a near freak accident. After this, Amal must decide what she will do with her life: whether she will return to Cairo and whether to continue graduate studies in America.
The Mother of the Bride
Director
This magnificently madcap comedy classic stars Egyptian film legends Tahiya Karioka and Emad Hamdi as Zeinab and Hussein, overworked parents who get little relief from the never ending demands of their seven mischievous children. When their eldest daughter, Ahlam, meets a dashing young man at a party, it's love at first sight and wedding plans must quickly be arranged. As preparations get underway, Zeinab and Hussein are soon overwhelmed by the elaborate and costly requests made by the groom's extravagant family. While tending to the needs of their other six children, Hussein and Zeinab must consider unconventional means to obtain the funds for a ceremony that the newlyweds will be proud of.
No Discussion
Director
No Discussion
A Day of My Life
Director
An unexpected love affair quickly blossoms between aspiring down-on-his-luck reporter Salah (Abdel Halim Hafez) and the subject of his first newspaper scoop, a pretty young heiress (Zubaida Tharwat)who's soon to be forced into an arranged marriage.
السبع بنات
Director
The story of an iron-willed man who looks after his seven daughters after the death of their mother, as his three older daughters, Ahlam, Wedad, and Salwa, fall in love and suffer the agonies of it, only for their dad to try to save them the heartache.
Struggle on the Nile
Director
Naïve young Muhasab is asked to accompany his more dependable friend, Mujahed, on a voyage up the Nile to Cairo. Once there, they will sell their boat, the "Bride of the Nile," in order to buy a barge that will make their village elders more competitive in business and trade. But a ruthless business rival is determined to see that the men never reach Cairo. Matters become even more complicated when Nargis, a scheming carnival dancer, is discovered hiding out in the cargo hold of the "Bride of the Nile."
إحنا التلامذة
Director
Directed by Atef Salem.
Rendezvous with a Stranger
Director
A classic Egyptian film noir starring Omar Sharif who is trying to find out the mysterious circumstances under which his brother was killed. This gem also features the belly dancer Samia Gamal and features some of her famous exotic dancing tableaux.
Beach of Secrets
Director
"Alia" back to Port Said, to her brother's house to spend the day with him, Garret student University in Cairo, which does not have the world but her brother "adel" who works in the sea.
Garimat Hubb
Director
They Made Me a Criminal
Director
Sultan's uncle ill-treats him in order to get his hands on Sultan's father's property. His life changes when a gang finds him after his uncle kicks him out of his house.
Laila Min Omri
Director
As a girl falls in love with an agricultural engineer, they sleep together and she gets pregnant. The Engineer must go to Europe for work but leaves behind a document admitting his paternity of the baby. As the girl gives birth, her father flees the country with her to avoid a scandal.
The Deprivation
Writer
directed by atef salem
The Deprivation
Director
directed by atef salem
Qadam Al Kheir
Assistant Director
Ihsan arrives from Lebanon to Cairo, and works with his friend Marzouk in a nightclub. Massoud Bey asks them to perform at his daughter's birthday party. Then he learns that his brother died and Mabrouka, his niece arrives from the countryside, and he tries to kill her because she's the sole heir to his brother.
عدل السماء
Director
An honest employee finds himself in a tough situation when he is accused of killing his manager due to being in the wrong place at the wrong time. His wife is forced to work at a nightclub to provide for their children.
A Voice From The Past
Director
Hamdi, a young boy meets his mother in a dream. She tells hims three things that are going to happen in the future.