19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Tribute to Shadi Abdu Al Salam

Casinò Badi'a

Casinò Badi'a
by Niazi Mustafa
Country: Egypt
Year: 1936
Duration: 28'


Studio Misr recreates the "Casinò Badi'a", the first night club in Cairo, inaugurated in the 1920's. As the film begins, the ballerina Tahiyya Karioka dances a solo. Badi'a Masabni sings two songs with his troupe of belly dancers.

Biography

film director

Niazi Mustafa

Niazi Mustafa (Asiutt, Egypt, 1911 - Cairo, 1986). Director, author, screenwriter and editor, after graduating from Munich's school of cinema, in 1934 he followed specialization courses at the UFA in Berlin. He worked as editor at Studio Misr right from the studio's inauguration in 1935. In 1936 he became head of the editing department. He has directed numerous full-length films, seven documentaries and two short films.

FILMOGRAFIA

Casinò Badi'a (1936), Salama fi khair (Salama sta bene, 1937), El doctor (Il dottore, 1939), Si' Omar (Il Signor Omar, 1941), Rabha (1943), Taqiyatu al ikhfà (Il cappello magico, 1944), Antar wa Abla (Antar e Abla, 1945), Dahaya al madaniyya (Le vittime della civilizzazione, 1946), Min aina laka hadha (Come hai avuto tutto questo, 1952), Ardu al abttal (La terra degli eroi, 1953), Hamido (1953), Al fares al aswad (Il cavaliere nero, 1954), Sighara we kas (Una sigaretta e un bicchierino, 1955), Rassif nimra 5 (Il molo numero 5, 1956), Sawwaq nisf il lel (Il conducente di mezzanotte, 1958), Isma'il Yasin Tarzan (1958), Fadiha fi al Zamalek (Scandalo nel quartiere Zamalek, 1959), Sirru taqiati al ikhfà (Il segreto del cappello magico, 1959), Dima'un ala al Nil (Sangue sul Nilo, 1961), Antar Ibnu Shaddad (1961), Al giasus (La spia, 1964), Bint Antar (La figlia di Antar, 1964), Saghira ala al hubb (Piccola per amare, 1966), Faris Bani Hamdan (Il cavaliere di Bani Hamdan, 1966), Shabab majnun giddan (Gioventù molto pazza, 1967), El ataba gazaz (La soglia di vetro, 1969), Al mut'a wa al adhab (Il piacere e la sofferenza, 1971), Bint ismaha Mahmud (Una ragazza di nome Mahmud, 1975), Sana ula hubb (Primo anno d'amore, co-regia Salah Abu Seif, Atif Salem, Hilmi Rafla e Kamal Al Sheikh, 1976), El dabbah (Lo sgozzatore, 1987).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Niazi Mustafa.
Director of photography: Mohammad Abdu Al Adhim.
Production company: Misr per il Teatro e il Cinema (Studio Misr).
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