19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Tribute to Shadi Abdu Al Salam

Darb al Mahabil

Darb al Mahabil
by Tawfiq Saleh
Country: Egypt
Year: 1955
Duration: 90'


Taha, a poor worker who lives in an poor neighborhood in old Cairo, is in love with his next-door-neighbor Khadigia, and gives her a lottery ticket. But the girl's father makes her throw it away. The ticket ends up in the pocket of the neighborhood idiot, Quffa. When the ticket wins the lottery, the neighborhood erupts.

"After making Darb al Mahabil, I had to wait six years before being able to make my second film, which I wanted the public to like. My interest in images and in the new Egyptian cinematographic language, which I experimented with in Darb al Mahabil, ended with that film. My idea has remained an unrealized dream" (Tawfiq Saleh).

Biography

film director

Tawfiq Saleh

Tawfiq Saleh (Alexandria, Egypt, 1926). Director, screenwriter and university professor, after graduating in Letters from the University of Cairo in 1949, he studied cinema and literature in Paris from 1950 to 1954. He worked in Jordan, Syria and Iraq from 1970 to 1982.

FILMOGRAFIA

Darb al Mahabil (noto come Vicolo dei pazzi, 1955), Cornish al Nil (La strada che costeggia il Nilo, doc., cm, 1956), Fannu al ara'is (Il teatro delle marionette, doc., cm, 1957), Al qulla (La giara, doc., cm, 1958), Nahdatuna al sina'iyya (Il nostro progresso industriale, doc., cm, 1959), Tariqu al mustaqbal (La strada del futuro, doc., cm, 1960), Al lagi'un (I profughi, doc., cm, 1960), Al khazaf al massri (La ceramica, doc., cm, 1961), Al sina'tu al thaqila (L'industria pesante, doc., cm, 1962), Sira'u Al abttal (La lotta degli eroi, 1962), Nasser fi al Hind (Il viaggio di Nasser in India, doc., cm, 1965), Al mutamarridun (I rivoltosi, 1968), Al sayyid Al Baltti (Il signor Al Baltti, 1969), Yawmiyyat na'ib fi al ariyaf (Diario di un procuratore di campagna, 1969), Al makhdu'un (Gli ingannati, 1972), Fajru al hadara (L'alba della civiltà, doc., cm, 1977), Al aiyyamu al tawila (Le lunghe giornate, 1980).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Tawfiq Saleh.
Plot: Nagib Mahfuz.
Screenplay: Tawfiq Saleh e Nagib Mahfuz.
Dialogues: Abdu Al Hamid Gioda Al Sahhar.
Director of photography: Abdu Al Aziz Fahmi.
Art director: Maher Abdu Al Nur.
Editor: Sa'id Al Sheikh.
Sound: Charles Foscolo.
Music: Abdu Al Aziz Mohammad.
Cast and characters: Shukri Sarhan (Taha), Berlanti Abdu Al Hamid (Khadigia), Abdu Al Ghani Qamar (Quffa), Hasan Al Barudi (Amara), Abdu Al Aziz Ahmad, Rafi'a Al Shal, Nadia Al Sab'e, Tawfiq Al Diqqin.
Production company: Aflam Al Nagiah.
Italian distribution: Al Sharq.
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