Country: Egypt
Year: 1950
Duration: 80'


Leila returns to Egypt to manage her father's patrimony. But she discovers that her cousin Ibrahim has stolen the wealth and left for the desert where, with the help of a group of strangers, he intends to illegally run a mine using the men of the tribe of Bani Amer. But their leader, Rashed, who has fallen in love with Leila, will fight Ibrahim using the name Al Saqr (The Falcon) and defeat him.

"The making of Al saqr gave me the possibility of working in Italy with Italian cinematographers. I directed the Arab version, while the Italian version was directed by Giacomo Gentilomo. I learned much from this experience, for example shooting the same scene twice, and not just once like we do, dubbing the dialogues, which we rarely do, using another actor when necessary" (Salah Abu Seif, from the book Talks with Salah Abu Seif by Hashim Al Nahhas, 1996).

Biography

film director

Salah Abu Seif

Salah Abu Seif (Cairo, 1915-1996). Director, producer, author and editor, he began as a movie critic, and debuted in cinema as director's assistant for the film Tita Wong, directed by Amina Mohammad in 1937. He worked as editor for Studio Misr and has published theoretical texts on cinema.

FILMOGRAFIA

Al muassalat fi al Iskindiriyya (Il traffico ad Alssandria, doc., 1940), Yawm fi mu'askar hindi (Una giornata in un campo militare indiano, doc., 1940), Nimra 6 (Numero 6, cm, 1942), Daiman fi qalbi (Per sempre nel mio cuore, 1946), Al muntaqim (Il vendicatore, 1947), Mughamarat Antar wa Abla (Le avventure di Antar e Abla, 1948), Al saqr (Il falcone, 1950), El usstta Hasan (Il maestro Hasan, 1952), Raiyya we Skena (Raiyya e Skena, 1953), Al wahsh (Il mostro, 1954), Shabab imra'a (La gioventù di una donna, 1956), Il fitiwwa (Lo spaccone, 1957), La anam (Non dormo, 1957), Al tariq al masdud (La strada senza uscita, cm, 1958), Ana hurra (Sono una donna libera, 1959), Baina al samà wa al ard (Tra cielo e terra, 1959), Law'atu al hubb (Le sofferenze dell'amore, 1960), Al banat wa al saif (Le ragazze e l' estate, film a episodi, co-regia Izzuddin Zul Fiqar e Fattin Abdu Al Wahab, 1960), Bidaya wa nihaya (L'nizio e la fine, 1960), La tuttfi'i al shams (Non spegnere il sole, 1961), La waqta li al hubb (Non c' è tempo per l' amore, 1963), Al Qahira 30 (Il Cairo 30, 1966), Al zawgia al thaniya (La seconda moglie, 1967), Al qadiyya 68 (Il caso numero 68, 1968), 3 nisa'in (3 donne, film a episodi, co-regia Henry Barakat e Mahmud Zul Fiqar, 1969), Hammam el Malatili (I bagni di Malatili, 1972), Sana ula hubb (Primo anno d' amore, film a episodi, co-regia Niazi Mustafa, Atif Salem, Hilmi Rafla e Kamal Al Sheikh, 1976), El saqqa mat (Il portatore d'acqua è morto, 1977), Al Qadisiyya (1980), Al bidaya (L'inizio, 1986), Al muwatin massri (Il cittadino egiziano, 1991), Al sayyid Kaf (Il signor Kaf, 1994).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Salah Abu Seif.
Soggetto, sceneggiatura e costumi: Nino Novarese.
Dialogues: Beram Al Tunsi.
Director of photography: Santoni e Tamba.
Art director: Alfredo Montori, Antoine Polisois.
Editor: Emil Bahri.
Sound: Nasri Abdu al Nur.
Music: Ahmad Sidqi.
Cast and characters: Samia Giamal (Leila), Imad Hamdi (Rashed), Farid Shawqi (Ibrahim), Zainab Sidqi, Sa'id Abu Bakr, Ioni Morino, Sa'id Khalil, Enzo Baglioni.
Production company and Italian distribution: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema.
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