Country: Egypt
Year: 1974
Duration: 38'
This film focuses on the Egyptian army, "the army of the sun". Images of the war of October 1973 between Egypt and Israel follow each other closely: newspaper titles, the Barlev line (the defensive line Israel built in the Sinai), destroyed tanks, soldiers in the hospital who recount the battles.
Biography
film director
Shadi Abdu Al Salam
Shadi Abdu Al Salam (1930-1986). Director, screenwriter, set and costume designer, he graduated from the Fine Arts Academy in Cairo in 1955 and in 1957 he worked as director's assistant for Salah Abu Seif. Between 1959 and 1966 he designed sets and costumes for ten Egyptian films and foreign productions including Cleopatra by Mankiewicz and La lotta dell'uomo per la sopravvivenza by Renzo Rossellini, with Roberto Rossellini's supervision.
FILMOGRAFIA
Al mumia (La mummia, 1968-1969), Shakawa al fallah al fasih (I lamenti del contadino eloquente, cm, 1970), Afaq (Orizzonti, cm, 1973), Giuiush al shams (Le armate del sole, doc., 1974-75), Kursi Tutankhamun al dahabi (La sedia d'oro di Tutankhamun, cm, 1982), Al ahram (Le piramidi, cm, 1984), An Ramsis (A proposito di Ramsis, cm, 1985).
Cast
& Credits
Director and screenplay: Shadi Abdu Al Salam.
Director of photography: Ibrahim Ghurab.
Editor: Rahmat Muntaser.
Sound: Nassri Abdu Al Nur.
Music: Majdi Giaber, Majdi Kamel, Shadi Abdu Al Salam, Baha'u Al Naqqash.
Director of photography: Ibrahim Ghurab.
Editor: Rahmat Muntaser.
Sound: Nassri Abdu Al Nur.
Music: Majdi Giaber, Majdi Kamel, Shadi Abdu Al Salam, Baha'u Al Naqqash.