19° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
Tribute to Shadi Abdu Al Salam

Id al Mayrun

The Feast of Mayrun
by Yusuf Shahin
Country: Egypt
Year: 1967
Duration: 15'


A film about the first day of the Holy Week, April 24, 1967: the origins, the preparation and the meaning of the holy oil.

Biography

film director

Yusuf Shahin

Yusuf Shahin (1926). Director, producer, author and actor, after graduation from Victoria College in Alexandria, he got his diploma from Pasadena institute in the United States. He won the Career Grand Prize at the Festival in Carthage in 1970, the Special Jury Prize at the Festival of Berlin in 1979 for his film Iskindiriyya…Leh (Alexandria Why) and was awarded the Medal of the State for the Arts in Egypt in 1994. He was awarded the Golden Palm for Career Achievements at the 50th Cannes Festival.

FILMOGRAFIA

Baba Amin (Papà Amin, 1950), Ibnu al Nil (Il figlio del Nilo, 1951), Al muharrigiu al kabir (Il grande buffone, 1952), Sayyidatu al qittar (La signora del treno, 1952), Nisa'un bila ragiul (Donne senza uomini, 1953), Sira'un fi al wadi (Lotta nella valle, 1954), Sira'un fi al minà (Lotta nel porto, 1956 ), Inta habibi (Tu sei il mio amore, 1957), Bab el hadid (Stazione centrale, 1958), Giamila al giazairiyya (Giamila l'algerina, 1958), Hubb ila al abad (Amore fino alla fine, 1959), Ben idek (Tra le tue mani, 1960), Nida'u al u'shaq (Il richiamo degli innamorati, 1960), Ragiul fi hayati (Un uomo nella mia vita, 1961), Al Nasser… Salahu Al Din (Saladino, 1963), Fajr yawm giadid (L'alba di un nuovo giorno, 1965), Biyya'u al khawatim (Il venditore di anelli, 1965), Rimal min dhahab (Sabbie d'oro, 1966), Id al Mayrun (La festa di Mayrun, cm, 1967), Al ard (La terra, 1969), Al ikhtiyar (La scelta, 1970), Al Nil wa al hayat (Il Nilo e la vita, 1969), Al ussfur (Il passero, 1973), Awdat al ibnu al dhal (Il ritorno del figlio prodigo, 1976), Iskindiriyya… leh? (Alessandria... perché?, 1978), Hadduta missriyya (Un racconto egiziano, noto anche come La memoria, 1982), Al wada'u ya Bonapart (Addio Bonaparte, 1985), Al yawm al sadis (Il sesto giorno, 1986), Iskindiriyya kaman we kaman (Alessandria ancora e sempre, 1990), El Qahira minawwara bi ahlaha (Il Cairo illuminato dalla sua gente, cm, 1991), Al muhager (L'emigrante, 1994), Al akhawen Lumière (I fratelli Lumière, episodio di Lumière et compagnie, 1996), Al massir (Il destino, 1997), Al akhar (L'altro, 1998), Sukut hanssawwar (Silenzio si gira, 2001).

Cast

& Credits

Director: Yusuf Shahin
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Yusuf Shahin, Choukri Raffael.
Director of photography: Abdel Aziz Fahmy.
Art director: Gabriel Karaz.
Editor: Rashida Abdel Salam.
Sound: Nasri Abdel Nour.
Cast: Mohammed Tawfiq, Husein Asr.
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