Salah Jahine

Sheikh Hosny is a blind man who lives with his old mother and his frustrated son in the Kit Kat neighborhood. His son Youssef dreams of going to Europe to find work, and has a relationship with a divorced woman named Fatima. Sheikh Hosny refuses to admit his handicap and dreams of riding a motorcycle like every sighted person, he also spends his nights smoking hash with the locals in order to forget his miseries after the loss of his wife and selling his father's house.

En el año 1798 el ejército francés liderado por Napoleón invadió Egipto, derrotando a todos los caciques mamelucos (que eran lo que quedaban del dominio otomano) y luego marchó sobre El Cairo. Tres hermanos viven cada uno a su manera este acontecimiento. Bakr, el mayor, planea la revuelta armada. Ali, el más intelectual de los hermanos, es partidario de un rechazo pacífico, mientras que Yehia, el menor, es tan inmaduro como impresionable y no se cierra al esplendor europeo.

Band of Mawlid and Mawlid teams includes father, mother, girlfriend Nousse and the thug man who loves Bahia and not Shawki and others. This band lives through the character of their daughter Bahia show girl in the band, which is centered around the work of the whole band, one night fall Bahia look at Ashraf, love grows between the poor girl and the rich writer, leave the band looking for another way to earn a living, working in one of the factories Ashraf looks for her and knows her place and recognizes her intention to marry her. Honored in any place of his choice, but in one of the Parties that drink wine, which makes them lose consciousness and come with actions that do not fit the place. She asks Shawki to represent her with love in front of Ashraf so that he can get away from her and leave Ashraf away from her and cover her whole life, prompting her colleague in the band to go to Ashraf and tell him that Bahia is innocent, adheres to Ashraf and get married.

Alaa lives and grows up in a forest in Africa, and before the death of his father, the ruler of the African country in which he and his son live recommends the necessity for Alaa to return to Egypt, and after his return Alaa finds it very difficult to adapt to the new situation in which he finds himself, until he finds a girl who teaches him to read And writing, and a love story arises between him and her.

In this Andre Gide adaptation, an activist is released after many years in prison and returns home, shaking up established relationships among his family members at the farm governed by his strict father. Demonstrating Chahine’s eclecticism, this is an elegant melodrama, exuberant musical, layered allegory, and profound portrait of personal and political disillusionment.

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.

1960s Egyptian documentary showing scenes of local life along the banks of the River Nile, with narration by Salah Jahin

1960s Egyptian documentary showing scenes of local life along the banks of the River Nile, with narration by Salah Jahin

Hamza "a member of the volunteer National Guard" meets up with the teacher Fawzya "Faten", after the fire of Cairo broke out, the British trying to capture all the volunteers in the National Guard , Hamza hiding in the house of one of his friend, and Fawzya help him, and she is trying to formation its own cell in order to hit the English forces in the Canal zone.

Salwa (Soad Hosni) secretly loves Waheed (Mohamed Sultan) . While Waheed loves Nadia (Nadia Lotfy). Meanwhile, Kamal (Moharram Fouad) falls in love with Nadia too, and keeps his love discreet .But when he knows that his friend ,Waheed, loves her, he decides to keep a distance from Nadia.